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To ‘r’ is human? Intrusive remarks on a recent controversy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 February 2009

Anthony Fox
Affiliation:
(University of Leeds)

Extract

Having followed with interest the recent exchange between Jack Windsor Lewis (JWL) and Julian Pring (JP) on the status of ‘linking’ and ‘intrusive’ /r/ and its place in teaching, I am prompted to intervene by the belief that a relevant and important point has been missed which also has wider implications for language teaching in general.

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Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Journal of the International Phonetic Association 1978

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References

Lewis, J. Windsor (1975). ‘Linking /r/ in the General British pronunciation of English.’ JIPA 5.1:3742.Google Scholar
Lewis, J. Windsor (1977). ‘The r-link business—a reply.’ JIPA 7.1: 2831.Google Scholar
Pring, J. T. (1976). ‘More thoughts on the r-link business.’ JIPA 6.2: 92–5.Google Scholar