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Southern American English - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Non-rhoticity is rapidly disappearing from almost all Southern accents, to a greater degree than it has been lost in the other traditionally non-rhotic dialects of the East Coast such as New York and Boston. The remaining non-rhotic SAE speakers also use intrusive r, like New England and New York City. The common thread in the areas of the South where a rhotic version of the dialect is heard is almost invariably a traceable line of decsent from Scots or Scots-Irish ancestors amongst its speakers. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Southern_American_English   (3410 words)

Rhotic - Wikipedia Areas with non-rhotic accents include Africa, most of the Carribean, most of England (especially Received Pronunciation speakers), Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the southern United States, New England, New York and Wales. Areas with rhotic accents include Barbados, India, Ireland, Scotland, Northumbria, southwest England, most of the northern and western United States (excluding New York and the New England region), and Canada. English pronunciation is divided into two main accent groups, the rhotic and the non-rhotic. nostalgia.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rhotic   (244 words)

EEAWW: Aims British films and television programmes in RP or regional accents are found in varying quantities in all the nations concerned, and Australia and New Zealand television screen programmes in each other's accents. Hung and Man are naturally interested in relative ease of comprehension of the various accents by Hong Kong students of English (For information on relative comprehenion of accents, see "Hong Kong: Perceived Comprehension of Accents"). American-accented movies and television programmes are found in all four of the English-speaking nations, and in all the other non-English speaking nations to be covered in this survey. www.otago.ac.nz /anthropology/Linguistic/Aims/Aims.html   (447 words)

Shavian Alphabet - The Shape of Shavian If you did, then your accent is rhotic (you "say your r's"), and you should be able to appreciate the formation of the compound letters better than those people with non-rhotic accents. One justification for this seemingly rhotic-oriented state of affairs would be that all non-rhotic accents were historically rhotic too -- as is reflected in the more conservative spelling of words like these, and also "bear", "where", "fur" and "were". Intuitively, or with a little knowledge of phonetics, you should be able to notice some relationships between the two members of each pair; but the nature of the correspondences is not the same throughout the whole set of short letters. www.saytheword.org.uk /shavian/table.html   (745 words)

rhymes:English:-ɑːsti - Wiktionary In non-rhotic accents, words ending in /-ɑː(r)sti/ are rhymes for words on this page. In some accents, words ending in /-æsti/ are rhymes for words on this page. en.wiktionary.org /wiki/Rhymes:English:-%C9%91%CB%90sti   (58 words)

Citations: Accents of English - Wells (ResearchIndex) If two accents differed only in the phonetic realisation of the same phonological system, there would be no difficulty, as the same phoneset, lexicon and text could be used. Developing a new accent is laborious, since it is not possible to choose one accent as a base form and systematically translate to others. The resulting synthesised speech is clear and intelligible, with a noticeable Welsh accent. citeseer.ifi.unizh.ch /context/382918/0   (1237 words)

English phonology - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography In rhotic accents like General American, on the other hand, the [əɹ] sequence was coalesced into a single sound, a non-syllabic [ɚ], giving [biɚ, puɚ, faɪɚ, saʊɚ] and the like (now usually transcribed [bɪɹ, pʊɹ, faɪɹ, saʊɹ] and so forth). The subsequent history depends on whether the accent in question is rhotic or not: In non-rhotic accents like RP the postvocalic [ɹ] was dropped, leaving [biə, puə, faɪə, saʊə] and the like (now usually transcribed [bɪə, pʊə] and so forth). In some American accents, /æ/ and /eə/ are apparently now separate phonemes. www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/English_pronunciation   (1620 words)

English alphabet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ar [ɑɹː] (rhotic) or [ɑː] (non-rhotic) (see rhotic and non-rhotic accents) en.wikipedia.org /wiki/English_alphabet   (857 words)

math lessons - Category:English dialects This category contains both accents and dialects specific to groups of speakers. www.mathdaily.com /lessons/Category:English_dialects   (54 words)

Reasons for Language Change Labov had a hunch that this variation was not random. His explanation was that he was trying to reduce social distance by unconsciously picking up features of their accent. It has been observed by many that shop assistants usually imitate the accent of their customers. courses.nus.edu.sg /course/elltankw/history/Change.htm   (3267 words)

Northern and Southern English People from what could be called the Deep South, like Georgia and Alabama, speak a broader version of that kind of accent which actually arose from the variety of dialects the original inhabitants of their states spoke with, such as Scottish, Irish, English and in the case of Louisiana, French, of course. I believe his wife, Laura is actually a Texan and she also speaks with a fairly mild accent, like most wealthy, upper-class, educated Texans. And while you may disagree strongly with some of his policies, as I do, he's no idiot. www.englishforums.com /English/17315/Print.htm   (1373 words)

World War 1 and 2 - Bajan Unlike other Caribbean creoles, Bajan is rhotic and has a strong tendency to realize word-final /t/ as. Bajan is an English-based creole language spoken in Barbados. www.worldwardiary.com /history/Bajan   (54 words)

Accents in "The Aviator" unrelated to the stereotypical accents of Eastern New England. to the stereotypical accents of Eastern New England. There are no colleges in the UK that have their own accents. www.vocaboly.com /forums/ntopic3921.html   (1335 words)

Talk:Rhotic - InfoSearchPoint.com Non-rhotic accents pronounce R before a vowel, as in red or torrid or water is. New Yorkers born before (approximately) the time of World War II are uniformly non-rhotic, those about my age (I was born in 1942) are mixed (I myself am mainly rhotic but when tired lose some of my /r/'s, but not all), and the younger they are, the more they tend to be rhotic. I am a Connecticut native, and I can tell you firsthand that English as it is spoken in Connecticut is most certainly rhotic. www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Talk:Rhotic   (617 words)

EL1102, Lecture No. 4 (Part 1) Non-rhotic accents began to appear in London and Boston in the 18th century. The glottal stop: The glottal stop is used in some UK (and some other) accents to replace ‘t’: better or little or a lot of it. This spread to New York too, as many immigrants were from East Anglia. courses.nus.edu.sg /course/elltankw/EL1102-wk4.htm   (1457 words)

Talk:Rhotic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The talk page for this disambiguation page used to redirect to Talk:Rhotic and non-rhotic accents, but it should have its own talk page. This page was last modified 22:13, 8 June 2005. www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Rhotic   (83 words)

► » Non-rhotic speech due to German influence. Standard is rhotic (R pronounced in all positions). accents, I was INQUIRING as to what specific accent that American RP EMULATED, and originally suggested ways it may have been transferred. You assert I was wrong, but I wasn't describing all dialects / accents. www.science-chat.org /detail-486159.html   (3153 words)

Rhymes: English - Open Dictionary Words containing r are listed on a separate page from those not that don't contain that r, in order to distinguish between rhotic and non-rhotic accents. There are links from each page to the other for the benefit speakers of non-rhotic accents, for whom the words in the one set are rhymes for the words in the other. Links to rhymes containing an r in or after the stressed syllable have this r bracketed, to show that it is not pronounced in non-rhotic accents. open-dictionary.com /Rhymes:English   (674 words)

Rhoticism English accents in the British Isles, the USA and thoughout the world, are either rhotic or non-rhotic. Children and illiterates are rhotic and non-rhotic just the same as anyone else, although they have no idea whether there should be an 'r' in a word or not. While a non-rhotic accent (for instance, in London or Sidney Australia) only has the r-sound if the next sound is a vowel - so not at the end of a word, as in 'car', or before a consonant, as in 'park'. www.hi.is /~peturk/KENNSLA/02/TOP/rhoticism.html   (409 words)

Which U.S. state has the best accent? : BESTANDWORST.COM West Coast accents are probably the smoothest and easiest to listen to. I agree with Danni_dysfunk about his theory of Native Americans and American accents. My theory is when the British and Spaniards came over to America to colonize it the classic english accent was combined with the American Indian's accent and that's how Americans got their general sound today. www.bestandworst.com /66/minnesota-accent-66989.html   (999 words)

Hong Kong English - China-related Topics HM-HP - China-Related Topics Like British English, Hong Kong English is also rhotic and non-rhotic accentsnon-rhotic, which means 'r' is not pronounced except before a vowel. Hong Kong English is sometimes used to refer to the Accent (linguistics)accent and characteristics of English_languageEnglish spoken by some of the ethnic Chinese residents of Hong Kong. The accent of spoken English in Hong Kong, perhaps, originates from the "tung sheng" (通勝), in which it is possible to find one or two pages containing lots of direct transliteration of English into Cantonese words, for example, "dinner" would be transliterated into the chinese words "甸那", pronounced "din na". www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Hong_Kong_English   (1210 words)

Re: When someone from Britain speaks, Americans hear a "Britishaccent"... The distinction is rhotic vs. non-rhotic accents, by the way; non-rhotic accents drop the _r_s. Grant Edwards wrote: > Right, but due to some wierd property requiring conservation of > consonants, when speaking Strine you've got to take the r's > removed from words like "carrier" and "order", and add them to > the ends of other words like Amanda. www.talkaboutprogramming.com /group/comp.lang.python/messages/381326.html   (190 words)

R-colored vowel DigiMelon.COM In English, only rhotic accents like General American contain r-colored vowels. They are cross-linguistically rather rare, but occur also in some varieties of Mandarin Chinese. Both articulations produce basically the same auditory effect, a lowering of the third formant. www.digimelon.com /R-colored_vowel/index.html   (116 words)

ANSWER One curious aspect of non-rhotic accents is the tendency for the "r" sound to reappear, sometimes in unexpected places. ANSWER: Rhoticism is a quality of certain English language accents, known as rhotic accents, where the "r" sound is pronounced everywhere it appears in the spelling of a word. However in Ireland and Scotland, English is spoken with a rhotic accent. www.manbottle.com /trivia/Rhoticism.htm_answer.htm   (499 words)

How to represent pronunciation in ASCII Where there are two columns, the left column shows British Received Pronunciation (RP), and the right column shows a rhotic pronunciation used by at least some U.S. speakers. Previous: Speech examples (Speech, Accents, Dialects, Regionalisms, Sound files) The complete scheme can be accessed on the WWW at: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Evan_Kirshenbaum/IPA/ I show here only examples for the sounds most often referred to in this newsgroup. www.yaelf.com /aueFAQ/mifhwtrprsntprnnct.shtml   (1134 words)

Yahoo! Groups : shavian Messages : 1115-1144 of 3550 I too am rhotic American, and never had an issue with ah and awe. I am wondering if this is a difference of accent (I am rhotic American) versus the actual pronunciation. These were the only changes between Read and second shaw systems that threw me for a loop. www.saytheword.org.uk /shavian/yahoogrouparchive/1115   (5014 words)

Learn English Accents speakers of non-rhotic accents must learn by rote when to write... a rhotic accent will find it easier to learn the spelling distinction between peninsula and peninsular than... John Wells discusses British accents and their implications for spelling reform. www.languagepilot.com /studyabroad/learn-english-accents.html   (384 words)

inetbot - experimental web and usenet crawler I think the rhotic and non-rhotic accents are much older than any I have difficulties with English accents as well. excited by the discussion, she reverted to her native accent. groups.inetbot.com /showgrp/uk_pfood+drink_pmisc_s447.html   (6056 words)

did_lleng 10- Els accents rhotic i non-rhotic de l’anglès (fenòmens relacionats amb els accents) dewey.uab.es /gacademica/programes/Ll.Estr_02/Fon_Ll_Ang.htm   (496 words)

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