Questions tagged [rhoticity]
Rhoticity refers to the presence or absence of post-vocalic <r> in different varieties of English.
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How does r-colored schwa behave in the coda?
How does r-colored schwa in American English behave in the coda before a vowel for instance in expressions like
Her age
Murder of...
After an hour
etc? What does happen there? Is there insterted r ...
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Child language acquisition as an explanation for American rounding of the /r/ sound
The English phoneme typically represented by the letter ⟨r⟩ represents a confusing and complicated mess of allophonic realizations, some of which are highly disparate and some of which vary only ...
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Native Pronunciation of -rr- in the place name Wirral as voiced alveolar stop -d-
I was surprised to hear the Native Pronunciation of -rr- in the place name Wirral as voiced alveolar stop/tap -d- in this video as spoken by a native centenarian at the time point 0:47:
Life Lessons ...
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How did Adolf Hitler pronounce his own name?
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian, who used the alveolar trill [r] in his speech, not the Standard German [ʁ]. This is only to be expected for an Austrian.
According to the German Wikipedia, in Austrian ...
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What do you call a failed attempt to use the "standard" speech?
Some speakers who use a non-standard accent or dialect of a language, occasionally desire to "adjust" their speech to the standard.
I'm interested in knowing if there is a word for when this fails ...
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How did one pronounce an 'r' in Old English?
I'm wondering how the rhotic consonant was pronounced by the ancient Anglo-Saxons. Was it pronounced as an alveolar like Modern English or more like the trill Scots use in certain words? Were there ...
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IPA Transcription help [closed]
I'm a linguistics student and working on narrow transcriptions.
Most transcription come fairly easily to me, but I'm caught up on the vowel in the word "hard"
How should the vowel be transcribed with ...
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Why do Richard and Robert become Dick and Bob?
Is there a phonological reason for this change?
I know there are names where, when clipped, there is /r/ in coda position. For example:
Derek > Der
Sarah > Sar
Harold > Har
So in non-rhotic varieties,...
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