Re: Rhoticity and other stuff.

Adrian> I still need rhoticity to be unambiguously explained to me, as it's
Adrian> something I have unresolved questions about.

Such as?  Do you speak a non-rhotic dialect, then?

A rhoticized vowel has its quality and quantity changed by the following
rhotic consonant.  Thus, for instance, <ca*> in American English is /k&*/,
but <car> is /kA`r\/.  The rhoticity makes the A`r\ into something like a
diphthong, as the A sound glides into the r\.  Same thing for <care> =
/kE`r\/, <air> = /E`r\/, <boar>  = /bO`r\/.  There is no rhoticized 'u'
in my 'lect; it becomes either [O`r\] ("poor") or [r\=] ("purr"), but
the same thing applies.  The vowel sound gradually shifts into the
sound of the sonorant r.

-Mark

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