10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RHOTICITY»
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rhoticity in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
rhoticity and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Non-
Rhoticity and Broad a in the Eastern New England Dialect ...
"Two major New England shibboleths are the "dropping" of post-vocalic r(as in [ka: ] car and [ba: n] barn) and the low central vowel [ ] in the BATH class, words like aunt and glass." (Carver, 1987: 21) On the other hand, I have recognized ...
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A Handbook of Varieties of English: Morphology and syntax
Nor is the dissimilation that results in deletion of the first r in words such as
surprise, governor, temperature, veterinarian, and caterpillar properly considered
non-rhoticity. Both processes are common in the South, though forms such as
passel ...
Edgar Werner Schneider, Bernd Kortmann, 2004
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Accents of English: Volume 3: Beyond the British Isles
Non-rhoticity is associated with two quite distinct social groups in the south:
upper-class whites, and blacks. Rhoticity is in many places associated with lower
-class whites. 'The conventional statement about the Southern postvocalic /-r/ is
that it ...
4
Standard Speech and Other Contemporary Issues in ...
The rise of rhoticity, that is, the reversal of the norms, was not sudden. Two things
illustrate the fact that rhoticity replaced non- rhoticity (or more specifically, partial
rhoticity) gradually as an overt norm. First, although rare in the speech of F ...
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World Englishes--problems, Properties and Prospects: ...
Among the sociolinguistic factors influencing rhoticity, monitoring of speech has
been mentioned repeatedly by a number of authors. In addition to speech rate (“
allegro tempo of ... speech”), Akers (1981: 74–5) describes deletion of word-final
...
International Association for World Englishes. International Conference, Thomas Hoffmann, Lucia Siebers, 2009
Non-rhoticity is found not only in RP and in the local accents of the east and north
of England, but also in most accents of Wales and New Zealand, in all native-
English-speaking accents of South Africa and Australia, and also in some of New
...
from the spoken recordings which came as a surprise to researchers was that
rhoticity was not just confined to Southland and Otago where it is heard today. It
was always believed that the use of /r/ before a consonant or before a pause was
...
Jennifer Hay, Margaret Maclagan, Elizabeth Gordon, 2008
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A Sound Atlas of Irish English
This relationship can be viewed in terms of a cline of rhoticity: at one end there is
local Dublin English with very low or non-existent rhoticity, at the other end one
has new varieties of Dublin English which show a very clear retroflex [j]. There is
...
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The Cambridge History of the English Language
The evidence for considerable variation between rhoticity and non-rhoticiry, with
intermediate semi-rhoticity, especially during the later nineteenth century in the
educated South of England, is, clearly, very strong.'30 The phonetic transcription
...
Richard M. Hogg, Norman Francis Blake, Suzanne Romaine, 1998
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The Oxford Handbook of the History of English
Rhoticity is most usually regarded as a categorical phenomenon. Its loss is
generally regarded as a simple deletion, which then triggers significant and
sudden restructuring. This chapter makes no attempt to provide a broad survey
on this ...
Terttu Nevalainen, Elizabeth Closs Traugott, 2012
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RHOTICITY»
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rhoticity is used in the context of the following news items.
Scottish accent doomed to extinction - and the Queen's English and …
... Hance, director of the Scots Language Centre, said the Anglicising influence of the media is behind the change, or what lingusists call 'a postvocalic rhoticity'. «Express.co.uk, Jul 15»
Sassenach accent flattens Scots' Rs
... media, including BBC broadcasters who adopt English pronunciations. To use the technical term for the vanishing “R”, it is the battle of “postvocalic rhoticity”. «The Sunday Times, Jul 15»
How Do You Speak American? Mostly, Just Make Up Words
... War, it became common among British people to drop r sounds—"card" became "caahd"—while Americans held onto their r-pronouncing rhoticity. «Atlas Obscura, Jul 15»
The Scottish accent is dying out
“The loss of rhoticity [ability to produce a hard R sound] in Scottish English would only be repeating what occurred in much of England—and parts of New ... «Quartz, Jul 15»
Why the John C. Calhoun Statue Should Be Removed from …
Non-rhoticity in Southern English of the lowlands, as well as our English creole languages, is almost certainly primarily the result of West and West-Central ... «The Times and Democrat, Jun 15»
I Made A Linguistics Professor Listen To A Blink-182 Song And …
An example would be non-rhoticity, a linguistic term referring to the dropping of your “R” sounds in words like “car” and “fear.” You can hear in this Elvis Presley ... «Atlas Obscura, Jun 15»
House of Cards: Kevin Spacey's Southern Accent Sounds a Little …
One of these traits is his “R-lessness,” which an expert would call his “non-rhoticity.” “This is when r at the ends of syllables is pronounced like a vowel or deleted ... «WebProNews, Feb 15»
TV's hard-to-spot British invasion
British accents also differ from American ones in nasality – Americans are more nasal – and rhoticity, which refers to how the “R” sound is pronounced, or not, ... «OCRegister, Oct 13»
Summer TV Winners and Losers
Obviously none of this would matter if Ray Donovan had given us something to pay attention to other than all that non-rhoticity. But with its cavalcade of ... «Grantland, Aug 13»
Lexicon Valley Reveals What We've Learned From Studies of R …
So are we destined to become one nation indivisible, with liberty and rhoticity for all? In the second of a two-part episode, listen as Bob Garfield and I discuss ... «Slate Magazine, Jan 13»
