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Rhotic Variation in Brazilian Portuguese
LanguagesWe present acoustic and articulatory data from an experiment designed to test the phonetic variability of rhotics in Brazilian Portuguese, focusing on the São Paulo variety.
Michael Ramsammy +1 more
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IsoglossThe two rhotic consonants of Ibero-Romance languages are characterised by their very specific distribution and by the prosodic weight of one of them. Data has hitherto suggested a geminate-to-single contrast for the pair of rhotics.
Joaquim Brandão de Carvalho
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What’s wrong with being a rhotic?
Glossa, 2019 The class of rhotics is subject to extensive variation, and a reliable phonetic correlate has not been found. This variation is also why identifying a segment as a rhotic in an unknown language is not a trivial matter.
Alex Chabot
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The Effectiveness of Ultrasound Visual Biofeedback in Articulation Therapy for Children and Adolescents With Speech Sound Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. [PDF]
Int J Lang Commun DisordABSTRACT Background Speech sound disorders (SSD) may compromise speech intelligibility in children and adolescents, impacting communication, social interactions and academic performance. Ultrasound visual biofeedback (U‐VBF) has emerged as a promising tool for articulation therapy, providing real‐time tongue movement visualization, yet its evidence ...
Yiu OY +5 more
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A sociophonetic analysis of rhotic variation in Italian schoolchildren
Quaderns d'Italià, 2023 This paper investigates the production of Italian rhotics in the speech of 75 schoolchildren (6-10 years old) in the area of Biella, in the North-West of Italy.
Martina Rossi, Lucia Sbacco
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Die /r/ in Afrikaans: Fonetiese en fonologiese eienskappe
Literator, 2020 The / r / in Afrikaans: Phonetic and phonological features. One of the most common consonants in Afrikaans is the rhotic /r/ phoneme. In Afrikaans this phoneme has at least five allophone realisations. Firstly, an overview of the /r/ phoneme in Afrikaans
Daniel P. Wissing, Wikus Pienaar
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Rhotics in Spanish as a foreign language: An intervention study with German–Turkish bilinguals
Strani Jezici, 2023 While German has one rhotic phoneme, the uvular fricative /ʁ/, which is vocalized to [ɐ] in syllable-final position, Spanish possesses two alveolar rhotics, the tap /ɾ/ and the trill /r/, which never undergo vocalization.
Christoph Gabriel +2 more
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An acoustic analysis of rhoticity in Lancashire, England [PDF]
Journal of Phonetics, 2023 This paper presents the first systematic acoustic analysis of a rhotic accent in present- day England. The dataset comprises spontaneous and elicited speech of 28 speakers from Blackburn in Lancashire, Northern England, where residual rhoticity remains, having never been lost in the earlier sound change which rendered most of England non-rhotic ...
Danielle Turton, Robert Lennon
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Word-initial rhotic avoidance: a typological survey
Glossa, 2021 This paper addresses the issue of word-initial rhotic avoidance (WIRA) from a typological point of view. Its first aim is to document WIRA cross-linguistically, based on the examination of a sample of 200 languages designed by the WALS (Dryer and ...
Laurence Labrune
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CONVERGÊNCIA DE PROCESSOS NO APAGAMENTO DE /R/ EM PORTUGUÊS E ESPANHOL [PDF]
Lingüística, 2019 Neste texto abordamos o apagamento de róticos em coda silábica, particularmente em fim de palavra, no português brasileiro e no espanhol que designamos como americano.
Luiz Carlos Schwindt +1 more
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