Re: Rhoticity and other stuff.

On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Mark J. Reed wrote:

> 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.
You say 'pure' as [pjO`r\]?

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Tristan

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