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Re: Rs

From:Shreyas Sampat <ssampat@...>
Date:Monday, March 31, 2003, 20:22
> > > That's why I said 'most'.  Incidentally, do Bostonian accents add
> > > 'r' on
> the
> > > end of final schwa, or is that just the Kennedys(I assume

I was under the impression that no accent added /r/ to final schwa;
rather, the 'intrusive-r' accents use /r/ to resolve hiatus between
words (/kjub@r&nd/ rather than /kjub@.&nd/ for 'Cuba and').

Shreyas Sampat