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2. Pronunciation of English /r/ - Wikipedia

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   R-labialization, which should not be confused with the rounding of initial /r/ described above, is a process occurring in certain dialects of English, particularly some varieties of Cockney, in which the /r/ phoneme is realized as a labiodental approximant [ʋ], in contrast to an alveolar approximant [ɹ].

3. Rhotacism - Wikipedia

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   Rhotacism (/ ˈ r oʊ t ə s ɪ z əm / ROH-tə-siz-əm) [1] or rhotacization is a sound change that converts one consonant (usually a voiced alveolar consonant: /z/, /d/, /l/, or /n/) to a rhotic consonant in a certain environment.

4. Voiced alveolar and postalveolar approximants - Wikipedia

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   English: Australian: red [ɹ̠ʷed] 'red' Often labialized. May also be a labialized retroflex approximant. For convenience it is often transcribed r . See Australian English phonology, English phonology, Rhoticity in English and Pronunciation of English /r/. Most American dialects [20] [ɹ̠ʷɛd] ⓘ Received Pronunciation: Igbo [21] rí ...

5. Rhoticity in English - Wikipedia

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   The loss of postvocalic /r/ in the British prestige standard in the late 18th and the early 19th centuries influenced the American port cities with close connections to Britain, which caused upper-class pronunciation to become non-rhotic in many Eastern and Southern port cities such as New York City, Boston, Alexandria, Charleston, and Savannah. [9]

6. Obsolete and nonstandard symbols in the International ...

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   intended for w before front vowels in Twi; [2] may also be used for the lightly rounded English /ʒ/, withdrawn 1976. ƪ: reversed esh with top loop labialized voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative: ɕʷ, ʃᶣ intended for hw before front vowels in Twi; [2] may also be used for the lightly rounded English /ʃ/, withdrawn 1976. ƻ: barred digit two

7. Voiced dental, alveolar and postalveolar trills - Wikipedia

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   Quite often, r is used in phonemic transcriptions (especially those found in dictionaries) of languages like English and German that have rhotic consonants that are not an alveolar trill. That is partly for ease of typesetting and partly because r is the letter used in the orthographies of such languages.