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  1. Rhoticity in English is the pronunciation of the historical rhotic consonant /r/ in all contexts by speakers of certain varieties of English. The presence or absence of rhoticity is one of the most prominent distinctions by which varieties of English can be classified.
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    What is rhoticity in English?
    Rhoticity in English refers to English speakers' pronunciation of the historical rhotic consonant /r/, and is one of the most prominent distinctions by which varieties of English can be classified.
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    How widespread was rhoticity in the mid 19th century?
    The extent of rhoticity across England in the mid-19th century is summarized as widespread in the book New Zealand English: its Origins and Evolution : [T]he only areas of England... for which we have no evidence of rhoticity in the mid-nineteenth century lie in two separate corridors.
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    Is rhoticity found in all accents?
    It is found in all or nearly all non-rhotic accents, and is even present in some accents that are in other respects rhotic, such as those of some speakers in Jamaica and the Bahamas. In some accents, syllabification may interact with rhoticity, resulting in homophones where non-rhotic accents have centering diphthongs.
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    Is rhoticity a sociolinguistic variable?
    In some varieties, such as those of some parts of the southern and northeastern United States, rhoticity is a sociolinguistic variable: postvocalic r is deleted depending on an array of social factors such as the speaker's age, social class, ethnicity, or the degree of formality of the speech event.
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    Rhoticity in English is the pronunciation of the historical rhotic consonant /r/ by English speakers. The presence or absence of rhoticity is one of the most prominent distinctions by which varieties of English can be classified. In rhotic varieties, the historical English /r/ sound is preserved in all

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    The earliest traces of a loss of /r/ in English appear in the early 15th century and occur before coronal consonants, especially /s/, giving modern "ass (buttocks)" (

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    In most non-rhotic accents, if a word ending in written "r" is followed immediately by a word beginning with a vowel, the /r/ is

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    Some phonemic mergers are characteristic of non-rhotic accents. These usually include one item that historically contained an R (lost in the

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    Certain words have spellings derived from non-rhotic dialects or renderings of foreign words through non-rhotic pronunciation. In rhotic dialects, spelling pronunciation has caused these words to be pronounced rhotically anyway. Examples include:
    • Er, used

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    Up-gliding NURSE is a diphthongized vowel sound, [əɪ], used as the pronunciation of the NURSE phoneme /ɜ/. This up-gliding variant

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    • It seems clear to me that the "clarification needed" tag added in this edit by Wolfdog was about the word "weakened", which is phonetically vague. As in this edit summary, it is probably best for it to be next to the same statement in the body of the article rather than in the intro. — Eru·tuon19:45, 26 June 2017 (UTC) 1. I'm more interested in get...
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    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Rhoticity_in_English/Archive_2

      In fact, if you look at the Survey of English Dialects, you will find traces of rhoticity (occasional use of r in words like farmer or bird) all over the North of England. But the people interviewed for the SED were mostly local farmworkers born in the 1870s and 1880s. The language they spoke …

    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Rhoticity_in_English/Archive_1

      "Rhoticism" means something else to me: the frequently observed sound change in which /VsV/ > /VrV/. This has happened many times in several different languages: compare German hasse …

    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Rhoticity_in_English/Archive_3

      The "rhoticity"/"rhotic consonant" article, as the title implies, describes rhoticity, defines what rhotic consonants are, their characteristics, the physiological way in which the sounds are …

    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhotic

      Rhotic is a term in linguistics which may refer to: Rhotic consonant, liquid consonants such as the [ɹ] sound in red. R-colored vowel, a vowel that is modified in a way that lowers the third formant, …

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      Rhoticity in English is the pronunciation of the historical rhotic consonant /r/ by English speakers. The presence or absence of rhoticity is one of the most prominent distinctions by which …

    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhotic_consonant

      In phonetics, rhotic consonants, or "R-like" sounds, are liquid consonants that are traditionally represented orthographically by symbols derived from the Greek letter rho, including R , r in the …

    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronunciation_of_English_/r

      Main article: Rhoticity in English English accents around the world are frequently characterized as either rhotic or non-rhotic. Most accents in England, Wales, Australia, New Zealand, and South …

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      Nov 04, 2019 · In phonology and sociolinguistics, the term rhoticity refers broadly to the sounds of the "r" family. More specifically, linguists commonly make distinctions between rhotic and …

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