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Word-final /r/ in a Northern English accent
An Interactional Account of Variable Production
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 February 2009
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It is widely recognized that during the eighteenth century a sound change began in English concerning the consonant /r/. This change, referred to as “R dropping’ (Wells, 1982a: 218), involved the elision of /r/ in non-prevocalic positions.
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