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rhotic: a standalone construct

One name. One construct. A landmark on the map.

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rhotic1 CONSTRUCTRhoticWELLS · R-COLOURED

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Phonetics & dialectology

The r-sounds and whether an accent keeps them

Rhotic refers to The family of r-sounds and, in accent description, to whether a variety pronounces /r/ in all positions. A rhotic accent keeps the /r/ in words like car and farm, whereas a non-rhotic accent drops it except before a vowel. Wells's 1982 Accents of English uses rhoticity as a primary axis for classifying English accents worldwide. The referent spans both a phonetic natural class, the diverse r-like consonants that resist a single articulatory definition, and the dialectological feature of whether an accent realises /r/ outside pre-vocalic position.[1]

Unit
Membership in the r-sound class, and whether an accent realises non-prevocalic /r/
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Assessed phonetically by acoustic lowering of the third formant and dialectally by the rate of /r/ realisation in postvocalic contexts

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References

  1. Wells, J. C. (1982). Accents of English. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521297196

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