regular and r-colored schwa Problems playing this file? See media help. An r-colored or rhotic vowel (also called a retroflex vowel, vocalic r, or a rhotacized...

an r-colored vowel /ɝ/ or a syllabic consonant /ɹ̩/. The American linguist Kenneth Pike (1943) suggested the terms "vocoid" for a phonetic vowel and...

pronounced as a flap [ɾ] or trill [r], and there are no r-colored vowels. In non-rhotic dialects like Received Pronunciation (RP), historic /r/ is elided at the...

Linking R and intrusive R are sandhi phenomena where a rhotic consonant is pronounced between two consecutive vowels with the purpose of avoiding a hiatus...

transcription delimiters. The following show the typical symbols for consonants and vowels used in SAMPA, an ASCII-based system based on the International Phonetic...

American) it may additionally be an R-colored vowel). For example, "or" is usually represented by a long ō (oo or ou) vowel, with the word "torch" becoming...

vowel. It is unrounded, which means that the lips are not rounded. R-colored vowel, a related phoneme in rhotic dialects of English While the International...

Rhotic consonant, liquid consonants such as the [ɹ] sound in red R-colored vowel, a vowel that is modified in a way that lowers the third formant, such as...

/nu/, not /nju/), as well as features that concern vowel sounds, such as various vowel mergers before /r/ (so that Mary, marry, and merry are all commonly...

of phonetics articles R-colored vowel While the International Phonetic Association prefers the terms "close" and "open" for vowel height, many linguists...

American neutralise /ʌ/, /ə/ and /ɜː/ (the NURSE vowel) before /r/, which results in an r-colored vowel [ɚ]. GA lacks a truly contrastive /ɜː/ phoneme (furry...

cardinal vowel sounds: In addition, some authors consider the rhotic approximants [ɹ], [ɻ] to be semivowels corresponding to R-colored vowels such as [ɚ]...

muscles, as in most sounds. Alveolar approximant Retroflex consonant R-colored vowel Index of phonetics articles Lee, Wai-Sum (1999). An articulatory and...

(n̠) Preaspiration Prenasalized consonant Prosody Pulmonic egressive R-colored vowel Retroflex approximant (ɻ) Retroflex click (‼) Retroflex consonant Retroflex...

where /r/ is pronounced in positions where it does not precede a vowel), many of the vowels can be r-colored by way of realization of a following /r/. This...

The soft [ɾ] occurs for many speakers in Southern Brazil and São Paulo city. An English-like approximant [ɹ ~ ɻ] or vowel (R-colored vowel) occurs elsewhere...

transliteration of Avestan, the corresponding long vowel is written as schwa-macron, ⟨Ə̄ ə̄⟩. An R-colored vowel can be represented using ⟨ɚ⟩. A schwa with a...

environment, causing mesh to sound almost like maysh. The r-colored vowel /ɛər/ may have an opener vowel sound: [æɚ~aɚ], making the sound of fair almost merge...

Rhotacization may refer to: R-colored vowels Rhotacism (sound change), conversion of a consonant into an r sound This disambiguation page lists articles...

have used ⟨ɿ⟩ to represent the sound of -i in Pinyin hanzi which has been variously described as [ɨ], [ɹ̩], [z̩] or [ɯ]. (See the sections Vowels and Syllabic...

èr 'two' and 耳 ěr 'ear' have r-colored vowels that do not result from the erhua process. All of the non-erhua r-colored syllables have no initial consonant...

represents the vocalic equivalent of a retroflex approximant (possibly an r-colored vowel). Another grapheme called "ঌ" ḷ (or হ্রস্ব ঌ rôshshô li as it used...

/r/ is [ɹ] before a vowel, but when not followed by a vowel is generally realized as an r-colored vowel, [ɚ], or as r-coloring on the preceding vowel....

the father vowel is traditionally kept distinct from either vowel, resulting in a three "lot-palm-father distinction". The r-colored vowel of cart is...

rhotic. The rhotic consonant /r/ is pronounced before consonants and at the end of syllables, and the r-colored vowel [ɚ] is used as a syllable nucleus...

hook. The U+02DE ˞ MODIFIER LETTER RHOTIC HOOK is used to mark an r-colored vowel. Hook above Palatal hook Ogonek As in the non-standard French translation...

Portuguese,[citation needed] which created [ɹ], [ɻ] and r-colored vowel as allophones of both /ɾ/ (now mostly /ʁ/) and /l/ (now mostly [u̯ ~ ʊ̯]) phonemes in the...

consonant /r/ is typically dropped when not followed by a vowel; it may also manifest as an unstressed [ə] or the lengthening of the preceding vowel. Intervocalic...

pronounced instead as a near-close vowel by some speakers – see the following section). In many rhotic dialects, an r-colored schwa, [ɚ], occurs in words such...

the historic mirror vowel in the word miracle is quite variable. Americans vary slightly in their pronunciations of R-colored vowels such as those in /ɛər/...