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

Quoting Tristan McLeay <conlang@...>:

> 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.
Yes, but you're a vanilla ricer.

                                                 Andreas

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