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Linking, intrusive, and rhotic /r/ in pronunciation models

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 February 2009

Adam Brown
Adam Brown
Affiliation:
Language Studies Unit, Aston University, Birmingham, UK*
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This article examines two related phenomena concerning the English phoneme /r/: linking/intrusive /r/ and rhotic /r/. The former is usually discussed in RP-oriented pronunciation drill books and phonetics textbooks. However, unless one adopts the narrow view that RP is the only feasible pronunciation model in a given situation, it is not legitimate to discuss linking/intrusive /r/ without mention of the second phenomenon – rhoticity. Indeed, as is shown below, these may be thought of not as two separate phenomena, but as two branches of the same phenomenon. Further, it is argued that linking/intrusive /r/ is not of great importance in English pronunciation teaching world-wide, and that the potential advantages of rhoticity are often underestimated.

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Educational Phonetics
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Journal of the International Phonetic Association , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , December 1988 , pp. 144 - 151
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Copyright © Journal of the International Phonetic Association 1988

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