Rhotics in Phonological Theory

Rhotics display an unusually wide array of phonetic variation, both across and within languages, and no consensus has been reached as to a single phonetic property which would define the class. This special collection explores, from a variety of theoretical viewpoints and languages, including typology, some of the characteristics of rhotics and whether the class of rhotics can be uniquely defined by its phonological properties, and the consequences such a definition has for the phonetics-phonology interface.

Guest Editors: Adèle Jatteau and Joaquim Brandão de Carvalho

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Research Article

What’s wrong with being a rhotic?
What’s wrong with being a rhotic?

Alex Chabot

2019-03-18 2019 • Volume 4

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Gothic <r> and Old High German <r>: Implications from phonological patterning
Gothic <r> and Old High German <r>: Implications from phonological patterning

Andrew Kostakis

2019-07-05 2019 • Volume 4

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Bavarian German r-Flapping: Evidence for a dialect-specific sonority hierarchy
Bavarian German r-Flapping: Evidence for a dialect-specific sonority hierarchy

Erin Noelliste

2019-07-12 2019 • Volume 4

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Not as you R: Adapting the French rhotic into Berber
Not as you R: Adapting the French rhotic into Berber

Mohamed Lahrouchi

2020-07-23 2020 • Volume 5

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Word-initial rhotic avoidance: a typological survey
Word-initial rhotic avoidance: a typological survey

Laurence Labrune

2021-01-27 2021 • Volume 6

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