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‘Rhotics’ are known for their phonetic variability; and their irregular universal phonological behaviour, which still, however, known to be conditioned by language-specific phonological systems. Therefore, recent research proposals on rhotics suggest an ‘
Aldahook, Uthman A.
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There is a scarcity of research into the relationship between speech perception and production from a multilingual perspective. The present exploratory study investigates longitudinally the acquisition of rhotic sounds in 24 adolescent learners who have ...
M. Wrembel +3 more
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Tongue shapes for rhotics in school-age children with and without residual speech errors. [PDF]
Speakers of North American English use variable tongue shapes for rhotic sounds. However, quantifying tongue shapes for rhotics can be challenging, and little is known about how tongue shape complexity corresponds to perceptual ratings of rhotic accuracy
Preston JL +3 more
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Acquisition, retention, and generalization of rhotics with and without ultrasound visual feedback [PDF]
Jonathan L Preston, Megan C Leece
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An acoustic analysis of rhoticity in Lancashire, England [PDF]
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
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]
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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The rhotics, due to their different realizations, have been the object of study in many sociolinguistic and dialectological studies (Aguilera (2008), Botassini (2009), Callou, Moraes e Leite (2013), Almeida e Kailer (2016), Maciel (2018), Maciel e ...
Dircel Aparecida Kailer +2 more
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Perception of ambiguous rhoticity in Glasgow
Relatively little research has been conducted on the effect of hearing an unfamiliar native English accent. This paper tests listeners with varying levels of familiarity with the Glaswegian linguistic environment, presenting them with naturalistic minimal pairs such as hut/hurt – produced by speakers raised in Glasgow – in two-alternative-forced-choice
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Articulating five liquids: A single speaker ultrasound study of Malayalam [PDF]
We investigate the lingual shapes of the five liquid phonemes of Malayalam: two rhotics, two laterals and a more problematic 5th liquid. Ultrasound is used to image the mid-sagittal tongue surface, mainly in an intervocalic within-word /a__a/ context ...
Khattab, Ghada +2 more
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