distinction between rhoticity and non-rhoticity is one of the most prominent ways in which varieties of the English language are classified. In rhotic accents, the...

in Standard Chinese and other Sinitic languages, adds R-coloring to the final of a syllable Rhoticity in English, the quality of an accent of English...

sudden mid-20th-century adoption of rhoticity among White Southerners of all classes, despite continuing non-rhoticity among Black Americans. Today, this...

derhotacization. English-language vowel changes before historic /r/ Rhoticity in English Wells, John C. (1982). Accents of English. Volume 1: An Introduction...

English. In most American and Canadian English dialects, rhoticity (or r-fullness) is dominant, with non-rhoticity (or r-dropping) being associated with...

occur in different dialects. Generally, these correlate to accents with rhotic vowels, as opposed to non-rhoticity (as in most of British English) or fully...

Phonological history of English consonants Pronunciation of English ⟨th⟩ Received Pronunciation Regional accents of English Rhoticity in English T-glottalization...

feature of yod-dropping was common in Essex. In addition, Mersea Island (though not the rest of Essex) showed some rhoticity in speakers born as late as the...

ˈboʊt/, rather than the Standard Canadian English /əˌbaʊt ə ˈboʊt/, with distinct stressed vowels. The non-rhoticity derives from the New England settlers...

Non-rhoticity is also found elsewhere in the English-speaking world, including in Australian English, New Zealand English, South African English, New...

dichotomies, simply defined as follows: Northeastern New England English shows non-rhoticity, the cot–caught merger, and strong /ɑr/ fronting. It centers...

especially in words like throw, throat, and through. The level of AAVE rhoticity is likely somewhat correlated with the rhoticity of White speakers in a given...

conservative in a few other ways, preserving certain features 20th- and 21st-century British English has since lost: namely, rhoticity. Unlike American...

that this tendency is more common in content words than in function words, and in reading than in conversation. Rhoticity is nevertheless generally uncommon...

languages have rhotic and non-rhotic varieties, which differ in the incidence of rhotic consonants. In non-rhotic accents of English, /ɹ/ is not pronounced...

most New Zealanders speak non-rhotic English, rhoticity is increasing quickly, especially among Pasifika and Māori in Auckland and the upper North Island...

other non-rhotic varieties of English. A table containing the consonant phonemes is given below. Non-rhoticity Australian English is non-rhotic; in other...

preceding vowel. In many accents of English, including RP, /r/ is lost altogether when not followed by a vowel – for this, see rhoticity in English (and for related...

promoting a rhotic variety of English. Thus, the overall degree of rhoticity in educated Jamaican English remains very low, with rhoticity occurring 21...

This phenomenon is known as non-rhoticity. In these same areas, a tendency exists to insert an R between a word ending in a vowel and a next word beginning...

dialects of English were rhotic, and most English in North America simply remained that way. The North American preservation of rhoticity was also supported...

a minimal pair. In Ulster they are [ð] and [θ]. Rhoticity: The pronunciation of historical /r/ is universal in Irish English, as in General American...

the development of rhotic and non-rhotic accents (i.e. "r-dropping") and the trap-bath split in many dialects of British English. The following table...

RP, or generally rhotic due to the underlying phonotactics of the native Indo-Aryan and Dravidian languages. In recent years, rhoticity has been increasing...

English) includes phonological features that concern consonants, such as rhoticity (full pronunciation of all /r/ sounds), conditioned T-glottalization (with...

and British English accents. The following lists a few common ones. Most American accents are rhotic, preserving the historical /r/ phoneme in all contexts...

City English, African-American Vernacular English, and Caribbean Spanish (wherein word-final /r/ is silent). Cultivated forms may be fully rhotic, particularly...

as New Englishes (McArthur, p. 36); most of them inherited non-rhoticity from Southern British English. Several dialects of West African English exist...

not include the varieties of Caribbean English spoken in the West Indies. Rhoticity: Most North American English accents differ from Received Pronunciation...

the Back Vowel Shift before /r/ (/ʊə/ ← /ɔ(r)/ ← /ɑr/) Non-rhoticity or variable rhoticity Unique New York City /æ/ split system: the bad vowel is [eə]...