distinction between rhoticity and non-rhoticity is one of the most prominent ways in which varieties of the English language are classified. In rhotic accents, the...

in Standard Chinese and other Sinitic languages, adds R-coloring to the final of a syllable Rhoticism (disambiguation) Rhotacism Rhoticity in English...

Non-rhoticity is also found elsewhere in the English-speaking world, including in Australian English, New Zealand English, South African English, New...

derhotacization. English-language vowel changes before historic /r/ Rhoticity in English Wells, John C. (1982). Accents of English. Volume 1: An Introduction...

promoting a rhotic variety of English. Thus, the overall degree of rhoticity in educated Jamaican English remains very low, with rhoticity occurring 21...

languages have rhotic and non-rhotic varieties, which differ in the incidence of rhotic consonants. In non-rhotic accents of English, /ɹ/ is not pronounced...

English. In most American and Canadian English dialects, rhoticity (or r-fullness) is dominant, with non-rhoticity (or r-dropping) being associated with...

feature of yod-dropping was common in Essex. In addition, Mersea Island (though not the rest of Essex) showed some rhoticity in speakers born as late as the...

sudden mid-20th-century adoption of rhoticity among White Southerners of all classes, despite continuing non-rhoticity among Black Americans. Today, this...

most New Zealanders speak non-rhotic English, rhoticity is increasing quickly, especially among Pasifika and Māori in Auckland and the upper North Island...

dichotomies, simply defined as follows: Northeastern New England English shows non-rhoticity, the cot–caught merger, and strong /ɑr/ fronting. It centers...

Phonological history of English consonants Pronunciation of English ⟨th⟩ Received Pronunciation Regional accents of English Rhoticity in English T-glottalization...

modern-day AAVE accent is mostly non-rhotic (or "r-dropping"). The presence of non-rhoticity in both AAVE and old Southern English is not merely coincidence, though...

as a "tony Harvard accent". This accent included non-rhoticity and even, variably, a non-rhotic pronunciation of NURSE, a resistance to the cot-caught...

preceding vowel. In many accents of English, including RP, /r/ is lost altogether when not followed by a vowel – for this, see rhoticity in English (and for related...

as New Englishes (McArthur, p. 36); most of them inherited non-rhoticity from Southern British English. Several dialects of West African English exist...

competency in standard English; sporadic rhoticity). Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: 'Wey dah boy deh deh?' [weɪ dɑ bɔɪ deɪ deɪ] (non-rhotic). Belize...

and mid vowels + /r/ in rhotic AmE. The phonemicity of the centering diphthongs /ɪə, ʊə, ɛə, oə/ depends on a speaker's rhoticity. Also, the stressed sequence...

English) includes phonological features that concern consonants, such as rhoticity (full pronunciation of all /r/ sounds), conditioned T-glottalization (with...

especially in words like throw, throat, and through. The level of AAVE rhoticity is likely somewhat correlated with the rhoticity of White speakers in a given...

non-rhoticity. For example, even though the word tuner is spelled with an ⟨r⟩ (which reflects that an /r/ was pronounced in the past), non-rhotic accents...

ˈboʊt/, rather than the Standard Canadian English /əˌbaʊt ə ˈboʊt/, with distinct stressed vowels. The non-rhoticity derives from the New England settlers...

nearly all dialects of English were rhotic, and most North American English simply remained that way. The preservation of rhoticity in North America was also...

dialects in New England, characterized by different combinations of the cot-caught merger and non-rhoticity New York City, characterized by non-rhoticity and...

rhoticity rules between Cajun English, New Orleans English, and Southern American English showed that all three dialects follow different rhoticity rules...

of words. Rhoticity appears to be declining in both real and apparent time in some areas of the West Country, for example Dorset. /aɪ/, as in guide or...

the Back Vowel Shift before /r/ (/ʊə/ ← /ɔ(r)/ ← /ɑr/) Non-rhoticity or variable rhoticity Unique New York City /æ/ split system: the bad vowel is [eə]...

around Liverpool, Manchester or Wigan. Rhoticity in Lancashire has been increasingly giving way to non-rhoticity since the second half of the 20th century...

occur in different dialects. Generally, these correlate to accents with rhotic vowels, as opposed to non-rhoticity (as in most of British English) or fully...

City English, African American Vernacular English, and Caribbean Spanish (wherein word-final /r/ is silent). Cultivated forms may be fully rhotic, particularly...