10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NONRHOTIC»
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nonrhotic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
Phonetics for Communication Disorders
However, a different form of liaison operates in those varieties of English called
nonrhotic. Nonrhotic accents of English are those that do not normally pronounce
postvocalic lr/ (i.e., /1/ that follows a vowel and either precedes a consonant or is
...
Martin J. Ball, Nicole Muller, 2014
2
How Children Learn to Write Words
One consequence is that ‹or› is now a fairly common spelling of /ɔ/ for speakers
of nonrhotic dialects. For example, corn contains a /ɔ/ that is spelled as ‹or›.
Other words have /ɔ/ spelled with ‹au› or ‹aw›, including dawn and caucus.
Rebecca Treiman, Brett Kessler, 2014
3
Handbook of Vowels and Vowel Disorders
Interjudge reliability for correct/incorrect judgments averaged 97% (range = 93–
100%) for nonrhotic vowels and 94% (range = 91–100%) for rhotic vowels. Vowel
Production Accuracy Vowel accuracy measures were obtained using custom ...
Martin J. Ball, Fiona E. Gibbon, 2013
4
How Languages Work: An Introduction to Language and Linguistics
This variable has two variants, a rhotic variant, in which the /r/ is pronounced as [
ɹ], and a nonrhotic variant, in which it is pronounced as a vowel, such as [ə] in
unstressed syllables, as in better [ˈbɛɾə], and as an offglide or lengthening of
the ...
5
English Phonology: An Introduction
1 , the 'linking /r/' of such items occurs in syllable onsets; it is therefore not
affected by the ban on rhyme-/r/ that characterises nonrhotic accents and occurs
freely in, for example, RP. This list is incomplete in that it does not contain items
such as ...
6
Phonetic Interpretation: Papers in Laboratory Phonology VI
Figures 13.2 and 13.3 show the means and standard deviations of the bark
transform of F2 first for nonrhotic then for rhotic varieties. 13.6.1.1 Nonrhotic
varieties Both nonrhotic varieties have laterals which are darker finally than
initially, ...
John Local, Richard Ogden, Rosalind Temple, 2004
7
Letter Perfect: The Marvelous History of Our Alphabet From A ...
rhotic ami nonrhotic. (The adjective "rhotic," from rho, the name of the ancient
Greek R letter, is just a fancy word meaning "of R" or, in this case, "using R.")
Rhotic speakers pronounce the R as written; nonrhotic ones drop R or diminish it
in ...
8
Legacies of Colonial English: Studies in Transported Dialects
Within the United States there are a few (recessive) nonrhotic regions, for
instance in eastern New England, New York City and the Tidewater South (Fisher
2001: 75-7) as well as among African Americans. Otherwise American English
shows ...
For such speakers an original /r/ is kept in all contexts indicated byan <r(r)>
spelling. Otherwise your accent will prove to be NONRHOTIC (= '/r/depleted').
Asa nonrhotic speaker you may haveno further /r/ at all intheexample
sentenceother ...
10
The Cambridge History of the English Language
Before the Civil War, the wealthiest and most politically powerful regions in
America were nonrhotic Boston and Virginia, which were under the strongest
influence by the British elite. After the Civil War, wealth and political power
passed to New ...
Richard M. Hogg, Norman Francis Blake, Roger Lass, 1992
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NONRHOTIC»
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nonrhotic is used in the context of the following news items.
Frankie Boyle: Comedian, Glaswegian, and Anti-Racist Chomskyan
(I think it's due to with the guttural and rhotic -- or is it nonrhotic? -- accent.) And this is even true of a comedian who left Glasgow when he 17 or ... «American Thinker, Apr 15»
James 'Whitey' Bulger Isn't Very Popular In His Hometown
Another day in Somerville, another aging, union guy with a fake hip and a thick, nonrhotic accent driving around in a silver Lexus telling me ... «VICE, Jun 13»
