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Rhoticity in Singapore English

English World-Wide. A Journal of Varieties of English
Abstract This paper examines the variation in rhoticity in both casual and careful speech of Singaporeans, who are representative of the general population of educated Singapore English (SgE) speakers. This study expands the scope of previous research on rhoticity in SgE, e.g. Tan and
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A history of hyper-rhoticity in English

English Language and Linguistics, 2007
This article investigates the history of what Wells (1982), in his account of present-day accents of English, calls ‘hyper-rhoticity’. That is, the appearance, in rhotic accents, of epenthetic, unetymological rhyme-/r/, usually taking the form of /r/-colouring in modern accents.
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Systemic contrast and Catalan rhotics

The Linguistic Review, 2009
It is argued here that an appealing approach to the distribution and behavior of rhotics in Catalan can be had by appealing to the maintenance, and the perceptual goodness, of contrast. Since the Catalan facts are very similar to those of Spanish, the relevance of these ideas to Spanish is also discussed.
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Rhotic metathesis in Gandhari

Indogermanische Forschungen
Abstract Rhotic metathesis is a characteristic feature of the northwest Middle Indo-Aryan dialect called Gandhari. At the early stage, in the Aśokan rock edicts, rC is eliminated by metathesis with either the preceding vowel or the following consonant, resulting in Cr if not simplified by r-loss.
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Rhotic variation in Spanish codas

2018
The present study describes the variation that syllable-final rhotics (preconsonantal and prepausal) exhibit in spontaneous speech in Central Peninsular Spanish. First, a detailed description of the acoustic and temporal characteristics of each variant is provided.
Beatriz Blecua, Jordi Cicres
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Nonconvergence toward the standard: the maintenance of a distinctive use of rhotics among the Santomean diaspora in Portugal

Folia Linguistica, 2022
Marie‐Eve Bouchard, Felix Desmeules-Trudel   +1 more
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Rhotic Vowel Harmony

Abstract In this chapter a description of four cases of rhotic harmony is provided. These are: (a) Kalasha, a language with a rhotic vowel for each non-rhotic vowel; (b) Serrano, a language with half the number rhotic vowels as it has non-rhotic vowels; (c) Yurok, a language with a single rhotic vowel, in a different place to all the non-
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rhoticizing, adj.

2023
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rhotic, adj.

2023
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Rhoticity in Historic Lancashire

This project contains the data and code for analysing coda rhoticity in north Lancashire from speakers born in the late 19th and early 20th century. Data are from the Elizabeth Roberts Working Class Oral History Archive: https://www.regional-heritage-centre ...
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