Re: USAGE: VOT and the status of /r/

On 30 Jan 2005, at 12.36 am, Andreas Johansson wrote:

> Quoting Tristan McLeay <conlang@...>:
>
>> Well, I was of the understanding they mostly did the same as me except
>> amongst more conservative speakers. At least the concept of 'intrusive
>> r' is a British one, implying that they must have at least a sizeable
>> minority who have puts the unwritten R in to 'law and order'.
>
> Hm. I notice that "law and order" in my xenolect comes out as
> [lO:nO:d@],
> apparently trisyllabic. "Lore and order" would be pronounced the same.
> Is this
> normal for non-vanilla rice non-rhotic 'lects?
I've always pronounced it more like [lo:r@no:da] or [lo:r@n:od@], but
the schwa is relatively minor.

--
Tristan.

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