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Systemic contrast and Catalan rhotics

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.
Jaye Padgett
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The organisation and structure of rhotics in American English rhymes

Phonology, 2019
Language-specific maximal size restrictions on syllables have been defined using frames such as moraic structure. In General American English, a trimoraic syllable template makes largely successful predictions about contexts where tense/lax vowel ...
Rachel Walker, M. Proctor
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Are New Zealanders “rhotic”?

English World-Wide. A Journal of Varieties of English, 2017
AbstractRhoticity is highly variable across English varieties. Traditionally, descriptions of English have distinguished between “rhotic” and “non-rhotic” varieties. However,Harris’s (2013)recent description of three core rhotic systems (R1, R2 and R3) demonstrates that this dichotomy is overly simplistic.
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The acquisition of rhotics by child L2 and L3 learners

Journal of Second Language Pronunciation, 2017
A. Reyes, Begoña Arechabaleta-Regulez, S. Montrul   +2 more
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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 representation: problems and proposals

Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 2003
Starting with an r that was already ambiguous, the IPA added new symbols and diacritics without arriving at a comprehensive treatment of rhotics. The results have been ad hoc solutions and potential confusion for languages such as Spanish, in which these need to be distinguished. A few modifications of the IPA diacritic system would suffice in order to
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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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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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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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