• 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...
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  • in Standard Chinese and other Sinitic languages, adds R-coloring to the final of a syllable Rhoticism (disambiguation) Rhotacism Rhoticity in English...
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  • Non-rhoticity is also found elsewhere in the English-speaking world, including in Australian English, New Zealand English, South African English, New...
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  • derhotacization. English-language vowel changes before historic /r/ Rhoticity in English Wells, John C. (1982). Accents of English. Volume 1: An Introduction...
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  • 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...
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  • promoting a rhotic variety of English. Thus, the overall degree of rhoticity in educated Jamaican English remains very low, with rhoticity occurring 21...
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    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...
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  • most New Zealanders speak non-rhotic English, rhoticity is increasing quickly, especially among Pasifika and Māori in Auckland and the upper North Island...
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  • sudden mid-20th-century adoption of rhoticity among White Southerners of all classes, despite continuing non-rhoticity among Black Americans. Today, this...
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  • Phonological history of English consonants Pronunciation of English ⟨th⟩ Received Pronunciation Regional accents of English Rhoticity in English T-glottalization...
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    English. In most American and Canadian English dialects, rhoticity (or r-fullness) is dominant, with non-rhoticity (or r-dropping) being associated with...
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  • dichotomies, simply defined as follows: Northeastern New England English shows non-rhoticity, the cot–caught merger, and strong /ɑr/ fronting. It centers...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • ˈboʊt/, rather than the Standard Canadian English /əˌbaʊt ə ˈboʊt/, with distinct stressed vowels. The non-rhoticity derives from the New England settlers...
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  • 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...
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  • competency in standard English; sporadic rhoticity). Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: 'Wey dah boy deh deh?' [weɪ dɑ bɔɪ deɪ deɪ] (non-rhotic). Belize...
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    as New Englishes (McArthur, p. 36); most of them inherited non-rhoticity from Southern British English. Several dialects of West African English exist...
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  • English) includes phonological features that concern consonants, such as rhoticity (full pronunciation of all /r/ sounds), conditioned T-glottalization (with...
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    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...
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    rhoticity rules between Cajun English, New Orleans English, and Southern American English showed that all three dialects follow different rhoticity rules...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • in present-day English: those found in the words trap, face, father and square (with the phonetic output depending on whether the dialect is rhotic or...
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    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...
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  • dialects in New England, characterized by different combinations of the cot-caught merger and non-rhoticity New York City, characterized by non-rhoticity and...
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    around Liverpool, Manchester or Wigan. Rhoticity in Lancashire has been increasingly giving way to non-rhoticity since the second half of the 20th century...
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  • City English, African American Vernacular English, and Caribbean Spanish (wherein word-final /r/ is silent). Cultivated forms may be fully rhotic, particularly...
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  • 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...
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