When is an /r/ not an /r
Phoneme and variations: notes on the phonetics, further to Michael Bulley's 2014 English Today article ‘W(h)ither the /r/ in Britain?’
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20356867 |
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| Authors | Keith Davidson (0000-0001-9269-3227, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 28-29 |
| Publication date | 2016-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | English Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0266-0784 • E-ISSN: 1474-0567 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0266078416000055 |
| OpenAlex | W2939942549 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
These notes are largely based on Lodge (2009), and the IPA transcriptions on Wells (2000). Michael Bulley has singled out for discussion one variant in the articulation of the /r/ phoneme in British English which he characterises as ‘w-for-r’, ‘close to /w/, but distinct from it’ (Bulley, 2014: 46). The focus is on /r/ in syllable-initial position, including /r/ in initial consonant clusters. He describes this particular, not to say singular, variant as ‘/w/-like’, which begs a number of questions
Consonant · Consonant cluster · Economics · Linguistics · Physics · Place of articulation · Political science · Syllable · Vowel · Law · Lexicography and Language Studies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research
| Highly cited | No |
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