Rhotics.New Data and Perspectives

• Main Author: Beňuš, Štefan (auth)
• Other Authors: Cohen, Evan-Gary (auth), Romano, Antonio (auth), Pouplier, Marianne (auth), Hoole, Philip (auth), Sankoff, Gillian (auth), M. Scobbie, James (auth), van 't Veer, Marijn (auth), Khattab, Ghada (auth), A. Syed, Nasir (auth), van Hout, Roeland (auth), Tops, Evie (auth), Baltazani, Mary (auth), van de Velde, Hans (auth), Blondeau, Hélène (auth), Nicolaidis, Katerina (auth), Punnoose, Reenu (auth), Romero, Joaquín (auth), Riera, María (auth), Bombien, Lasse (auth), Petin, Cédric (auth), Savu, Carmen-Florina (auth), VIETTI, Alessandro (Editor), SPREAFICO, Lorenzo (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Bozen-Bolzano bu,press 2013
• Subjects: linguistics; phonetik; phonetics; language acquisition; phonology; fonetica; soziolinguistik; lingue; phonologie; r-sounds; lautlehre; fonologia; insegnamento delle lingue; sprachen; language; r-laut; rhotics; spracherwerb; socio-linguistica; suono r; sociolinguistics; Consonant; Italy; Syllable; Uvular consonant; Voiced dental; alveolar and postalveolar trills; Vowel
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

This book provides an insight into the patterns of variation and change of rhotics in different languages and from a variety of perspectives. It sheds light on the phonetics, the phonology, the socio-linguistics and the acquisition of /r/-sounds in languages as diverse as Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Kuikuro, Malayalam, Romanian, Slovak, Tyrolean and Washili Shingazidja thus contributing to the discussion on the unity and uniqueness of this group of sounds.