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Re: (Offlist) Re: ASCII IPA

From:bnathyuw <bnathyuw@...>
Date:Wednesday, August 21, 2002, 9:31
 --- Javier BF <uaxuctum@...> wrote:
> > That's the rule for non-rhotic dialects, at least > British, > when a previous r sound existed and was dropped. The > r is > preserved when in liaison, in the same way French > preserves > "muted" final consonants in such cases. Evidently, > this is > not the case with "idea" and "Cuba", which, as you > say, are > simply hypercorrections. > > > >As one who grew up with rhotic speech, I can tell > you that such > >pronunciations were considered utterly ignorant by > our teachers. > > And, I guess, by everyone used to the orthography, > too. >
not at all. pedants make fun of them, but pronunciation without intrusive 'r's can sound rather stilted the classic example is /,lO:.r@n.'O:.d@/ for |law and order|, but you can pronounce that /lO:@n.'O:.d@/ stranger but more entrenched examples are words like |sawing| /'sO:.r\IN/, where /'sO:.IN/ ends up sounding like a childish lisp : /'SO:.wIN/ i'ld be tempted to say that the intrusive 'r' isn't based at all on orthography, but is a way of stopping the vowels /@/ /A:/ /I:/ /E:/ /O:/ &c coalescing with a following vowel you could even hear |is the window open| /,Iz.D@.'wIn.d@.,r\VU.p@n/ but this is based on a non-standard pronunciation of |window| bn __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com

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Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...>intrusive "r" [was Re: (Offlist) Re: ASCII IPA]