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	Rhotic consonant
		Trill (popularly known as rolled r): The airstream is interrupted several times as one of the organs of speech (usually the tip of the tongue or the uvula) vibrates, closing and opening the air passage.
		One suggestion that has been made is that each member of the class of rhotics shares certain properties with other members of the class, but not necessarily the same properties with all; in this case, rhotics have a "family resemblance" with each other rather than a strict set of shared properties.
		Another suggestion is that rhotics are defined by their behavior on the sonority hierarchy, namely, that a rhotic is any sound that patterns as being more sonorous than a lateral consonant but less sonorous than a vowel.
	www.jgames.co.uk /title/Rhotic_consonant (857 words)

	rhotics Information Center - rhotics
		Trill (popularly known as rolled r): The airstream is interrupted several times as one of the organs of speech (usually the tip of the tongue or the uvula) vibrates, closing and opening the air passage.
		Alveolar or retroflex approximant, as in most accents of English (with minute differences): rhotics The front part of the tongue approaches the upper gum, or the tongue-tip is curled back towards the roof of the mouth ("retroflexion").
		In broad transcription rhotics are usually symbolised as /r/ unless there are two or more types of rhotic in the same language.
	www.scipeeps.com /Sci-Linguistic_Topics_R_-_T/rhotics.html (578 words)

	GLSA Abstract (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Rhotics have long been grouped together, but have rarely been examined for phonological classhood.
		Chapter 4 brings together laterals and rhotics and addresses the question of whether there is a class which subsumes both groups.
		Rhotics and sonorant laterals, but not obstruent laterals, comprise the class of liquids.
	glsa.hypermart.net /cgi-bin/abstract.cgi?WALS97 (324 words)

	rhotic consonant \| English \| Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
		However, "being r-like" is a strangely elusive feature, and the very same sounds that function as rhotics in some systems may pattern with fricatives, semivowels or even stops in others.
		The most typical rhotic sounds found in the world's languages are the following:Trill (popularly known as rolled r): The airstream is interrupted several times as one of the organs of speech (usually the tip of the tongue or the uvula) vibrates, closing and opening the air passage.
		Alveolar or retroflex approximant, as in most accents of English (with minute differences): The front part of the tongue approaches the upper gum, or the tongue-tip is curled back towards the roof of the mouth ("retroflexion").
	www.babylon.com /definition/rhotic_consonant (505 words)

	MSc Projects with Rachael-Anne Knight - City University London
		'Rhotics' is a term which refers to 'r' like sounds.
		I am particularly interested in the acquisition of rhotics, including how they are produced and perceived by typically developing children of various ages.
		A single case study into the efficacy of using intra-oral sensory feedback therapy with a 6 year old child with a severe speech disorder as a result of a cleft palate.
	www.city.ac.uk /lcs/mscprojects/rachaelanneknightprojects.html (486 words)

	LabPhon 8 - Abstracts (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Some scholars have approached English lingual rhotics in the same manner - that is, in terms of an anterior C gesture (laminal or apical approximation to the front of the hard palate) and a pharyngeal V gesture (McMahon et al 1994, Gick 1999).
		Gick finds for a group of rhotic speakers that onset and coda allophones show divergent tendencies in terms of the magnitude and phasing relations of C and V gestures, and crucially, that intervocalic allophones are intermediate.
		Gick extrapolates these rhotic findings and claims that in non-rhotic varieties, there is a coda /r/ which differs from onset /r/ enough to convey an impression of complete loss of rhoticity in the coda.
	sapir.ling.yale.edu:16080 /labphon8/Poster_Abstracts/Mullooly.html (896 words)

	Rhotic consonant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The bilabial trill, however, is not considered a rhotic.
		The standard /r/'s in French, German, and Danish are variants of this type of rhotic.
		The IPA has a full set of different symbols which can be used whenever more phonetic precision is required: an r rotated 180° [ɹ] for the alveolar approximant, a small capital R [ʀ] for the uvular trill, and a flipped small capital R [ʁ] for the voiced uvular fricative.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rhotic_consonant (699 words)

	R hardening \| Antimoon Forum
		The laminal postalveolar rhotic shows up after laminal and coronal consonants (and to some extent at times utterance-initially), whereas uvular rhotics show up in all other positions.
		Said uvular rhotics seem to consist of, on one hand, simple uvular approximants, and on the other hand, "hardened" pharyngealized uvular approximants or (optionally pharyngealized) uvular fricatives.
		This is the one of the things called a "bunched r", and is basically what I have for a rhotic after labials and coronals.
	www.antimoon.com /forum/t5231.htm (365 words)

	Interspeech 2007
		Rhotics are generally by phoneticians believed to be phonetically heterogeneous.
		Such sounds are usually classified as rhotics due to their similar phonological behaviour and their diachronic and synchronic alternation.
		Although there are some generalizations to be made for all r-sounds including phonotactic properties, as well as synchronic and diachronic alternations, considerable segmental variation, especially in the realisation of /r/ in German, has been described, leading some to conclude that a positive description of the German phoneme /r/ does not make sense.
	www.interspeech2007.org /Technical/detail.php?ses=FrC.O2 (1007 words)

	Rhotic consonant
		In American English flaps do not function as rhotics but are realisations of intervocalic apical stops ([t] or [d], e.g.
		Alveolar or retroflex approximant, as in most accents of English (with minute differences): The front part of the tongue approaches the upper gum, or the tongue-tip is curled back towards the roof of the mouth ("retroflexion").
		The International Phonetic Alphabet has a full set of different symbols which can be used whenever more phonetic accuracy is required (e.g.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/rh/Rhotics.html (423 words)

	Review of r-atics
		'r-atics refers both to the ‘chameleonic nature of the rhotics’ and to ‘the fact that a lot of erroneous views on the characteristics and distribution of different variants of /r/ are spread among both lay-men and linguists’ (p.
		Wiese addresses the well-known problem that ‘Phonologically, rhotics tend to behave in similar ways and participate as a class in phonological rules’ while ‘Phonetically, the rhotics form a heterogeneous group’ (Lindau 1985:158).
		As suggested by some of my criticisms, I applaud the multidisciplinary approach taken by the organisers of the workshop, and hope that this will further encourage ‘phonologists’ and ‘sociolinguists’ to pay attention to the phonetic details of the patterns they refer to, and ‘phoneticians’ to address the theoretical implications of their findings.
	www.let.leidenuniv.nl /hsl_shl/ratics.htm (2474 words)

	Avawrite—The Eleventh Volume: A Guide to a Fictional World
		Six of the glyphs, the so-called "rhotics", are combinations of vowel sounds and the glyph rally, for /ɹ/.
		Other Avaddonian dialects are non-rhotic; they have no need at all for the rhotic glyphs because they do not pronounce /ɹ/ at the end of words or before consonants.
		Thanks to all of these problems, the rhotics are perhaps the most frequently misused Avawrite glyphs.
	www.flyingghoti.net /wiki/index.php?title=Avawrite (3383 words)

	CTW: Abstract View
		Portuguese rhotics are extremely variable, as they range from apical taps and trills to glottal fricatives, going through the entire uvular range.
		Throughout the Portuguese language, this contrast is exclusively intervocalic: the weak rhotics do not occur initially and the strong ones do not occur in clusters.
		Difficult as it may be for children, rhotic phonetic structure is redundant in the ambient language, since it is coded in the phonotactics and, thus, is partly accessible to whoever can perceive the contrast.
	www.ctw-congress.de /scripts/abs-view/abstract.php?id=7774&topic=318&kid=23 (506 words)

	LISTSERV 14.4
		Hall (1997), as well as others, has proposed a feature [rhotic] to capture the generalizations of what seems to be a natural class, but W maintains this covers the problem rather than illuminates it.
		But W notes that rhotics are generally not laminal, that Walsh-Dickey's system vastly overgenerates possible geometries, and other objections.
		Given that a rhotic can be a voiceless fricative, it seems inconceivable that this would occupy the same position on the sonority scale as say, an voiced approximant.
	listserv.linguistlist.org /cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0206B&L=linguist&D=0&P=6200 (5518 words)

	Conlang: Rhotics in rtemmu (Dan Sulani, Nov 29 '00, 15:04)
		On 26 Nov, in reply to BP Jonsson's question about conlang rhotics, I wrote: My conlang, rtemmu, also has both /r/ (written r) and /R/ (written r`).
		In rtemmu, the r` is supposed to be a rhotic mid-central vowel or, "right-hook shwa", _not_ a uvular trill.
		And the reason for that is that, according to what I see on the IPA website at cs.brown.edu, none of the other systems has an ASCII symbol to represent the rhotic mid-central vowel.
	archives.conlang.info /pe/jhanke/jowifein.html (195 words)

	Phonetic Typology and Positional Allophones for Alveolar Rhotics in Catalan
		The present study reports electropalatographic and acoustic data on the positional and contextual characteristics of alveolar taps and trills in Majorcan, Valencian and Eastern Catalan.
		Word-final and, to a lesser extent, preconsonantal rhotics are implemented as taps in Majorcan and Valencian, and strengthened into trills in Eastern Catalan.
		Moreover, there appears to be an inverse relationship between initial strengthening, and intervocalic weakening and the absence of syllable-final strengthening, for Valencian rhotics, which could be indicative of a pattern of intersegmental organization.
	content.karger.com /produktedb/produkte.asp?doi=100059 (201 words)

	[No title]
		The two versions diverge with respect to the second question, as only the weak version predicts that monolingual English speakers should maintain an additional distinction between /(/ and /r/ as these segments differ with respect to the type of feature required for their representation that is missing from the L1 grammar.
		We compared the neural responses elicited by rhotic segments in L2 French learners and L2 Spanish learners at varying levels of proficiency.
		The results suggest that these learners were unable to establish a new category for the L2 rhotic segment, regardless of the type of feature that is absent in the L1 grammar or the length of exposure to the L2.
	www.ss.ucalgary.ca /JArchibald/Mah/Mah5.doc (2299 words)

	The relational /r/ [electronic resource] : three case studies in rhotic integrity and variation
		The first chapter notes that no viable, phonetically motivated evidence for the classhood of rhotics has been proposed to date and advances the case for a non -structuralist approach to the question of cross -linguistic rhotic classification, i.e.
		A constraint based, OT inspired framework is employed in discussion and advancement of the segmental integrity (or definition by relational dynamic) of rhotics, in particular.
		A final chapter applies the relational definition of rhotics to instances of variation and shows how a relational definition of the segment contributes to a greater understanding of linguistic behavior.
	repositories.tdl.org /handle/2152/564 (351 words)

	Old Adpihi - Conlang
		The SIL definition of a "rhotic" is "any liquid that is not a lateral"; the SIL definition of a "liquid" is "any approximant that is not a semivowel".
		Neither of Adpihi's "rhotics" is an approximant, so this definition is inadequate to include them.
		Very many uvular and/or retroflex consonants, as well as very many trills, taps, and flaps, are considered "rhotic" in the languages in which they occur, even when they aren't approximants.
	conlang.wikia.com /wiki/Old_Adpihi (902 words)

	rhotics
		From greatest to least stricture, speech sounds may be classified along a cline as stop consonants (with occlusion, or blocked airflow), fricative consonants (with partially blocked and therefore strongly turbulent airflow), approximants (with only slight turbulence), and vowels (with full unimpeded airflow).
		Most Australian languages are commonly held to belong to the Pama-Nyungan family, a family by no means unproblematic but still accepted by most linguists (with R.M.W. Dixon as a noted exception).
		Most Australian languages are commonly held to belong to the Pama-Nyungan family, a family by no means unproblematic but still accepted by most linguists (with R. Dixon as a noted exception).
	www.experiencefestival.com /rhotics (1441 words)

	R-colored vowel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Both articulations produce basically the same auditory effect, a lowering in frequency of the third formant.
		In simplified written Chinese, the change is indicated with the suffix 儿 (If the word ends in a nasal, the final consonant is lost and the vowel becomes nasalized).
		In the 1930s the Dravidian language Badaga had two degrees of rhoticity among all five of its vowels, but few speakers maintain the distinction today, and then only in one or two vowels.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/R-colored_vowel (369 words)

	Norman B Tindale
		There were only two words with initial rhotics (and a third that Tindale wrongly wrote with initial rhotic).
		Of words where the rhotic was intervocalic, Tindale got 70 of 84 right when the rhotic was a trill, and 14 out of 57 when it was a glide.
		Word-final rhotics are correct in eight of 34 cases.
	www.anu.edu.au /linguistics/nash/aust/nbt/symbols.html (477 words)

	The Mystery of Austronesian Final Consonant Loss
		Final consonant loss as sound change is schemalized in (1), and appears to have occurred as an independent sound change at least fourteen times in the history of Austronesian, as summarized in table I, with perhaps the best-known and best-studied cases being those in Central Pacific and Nuclear Micronesian.
		Because Proto-Austronesian is reconstructed with final oral stops, affricates, fricatives, nasals, rhotics, and glides, the sound change in (1), as formulated, targets all of these segments.
		Indeed, there is evidence of oral stop neutralization to glottal stop, place neutralization of nasals, and loss of liquids and rhotics in languages that have not undergone the sound change in (1).
	www.questia.com /PM.qst?a=o&se=gglsc&d=5006660160 (2251 words)

	PERILUS XXVIII (2005)
		A possible perceptual basis for change between coronal and dorsal rhotics was examined.
		Listener responses indicated that the observed region was ambiguous in terms of place of articulation.
		This suggests the existence of a perceptual bridge between coronal and dorsal rhotics which, in turn, may provide a perceptual basis for historical sound change.
	www.ling.su.se /fon/perilus/2005_abs_06.htm (89 words)

	Jaye Padgett's Research
		This paper argues for an account of them cast within Dispersion Theory (Flemming 1995), calling on constraints requiring that contrast be maintained, and on others requiring that contrasts be perceptually distinct.
		The appeal to contrast leads to a simpler and more explanatory account of Catalan rhotics compared to previous ones.
		The analysis also illustrates how it is possible to incorporate more systematic phonetic detail into phonology without predicting the overgeneration of contrast.
	people.ucsc.edu /~padgett/papers.html (1909 words)

	VTAR
		Am., 115(3), 1274], VTAR is able to model various complex sounds such as nasals, rhotics and liquids.
		With input in the form of vocal tract cross-sectional area functions, VTAR calculates the vocal tract acoustic response function and the formant frequencies and bandwidths.
		The program also provides an interface for input and modification of arbitrary vocal tract geometry configurations, which is ideal for research applications.
	www.isr.umd.edu /Labs/SCL/vtar/index.html (180 words)

	Manner of articulation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Trills and flaps, where there is one or more brief occlusions, constitute a class of consonant called rhotics.
		Lateral approximants, usually shortened to lateral, are a type of approximant pronounced with the side of the tongue.
		Together with the rhotics, which have similar behavior in many languages, these form a class of consonant called liquids.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Manner_of_articulation (1352 words)

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