Rhotics. New Data and Perspectives

Contents
I. Acknowledgments………………………………………………………………………………………………… 7
II. Introduction…………………………………………………………………………………………… 9
Part I – Language acquisition and bilingualism
On the Place of Rhotics: A case study on the acquisition of French //
Marijn van ’t Veer…………………………………………………………………………………… 23
Acquisition of English [] by adult Pakistani learners. Nasir A. Syed……………… 41
On rhotics in a bilingual community: A preliminary UTI research
Lorenzo Spreafico & Alessandro Vietti……………………………………………………….. 57
Part II – Phonetics and phonology
Articulatory coordination in obstruent-sonorant clusters and syllabic
consonants: Data and modelling
Philip Hoole, Marianne Pouplier, Štefan Benˇusˇ & Lasse Bombien………………………. 81
Articulating five liquids: A single speaker ultrasound study of Malayalam
James M. Scobbie, Reenu Punnoose & Ghada Khattab………………………………………. 99
The many faces of /r/
Mary Baltazani & Katerina Nicolaidis…………………………………………………………. 125
Another look at the structure of [ɾ]: Constricted intervals and vocalic elements
Carmen-Florina Savu……………………………………………………………………………… 145
New insights into American English V+/r/ sequences
María Riera & Joaquín Romero………………………………………………………………… 159
/r/ in Washili Shingazidja Cédric Patin………………………………………………………….173
Prosodic factors in the adaptation of Hebrew rhotics in loanwords from English
Evan-Gary Cohen…………………………………………………………………………………… 191
Part III – Language variation and change
A preliminary contribution to the study of phonetic variation of /r/ in Italian and
Italo-Romance. Antonio Romano……………………………………………………………….. 209
The spreading of uvular [ʀ] in Flanders
Hans Van de Velde, Evie Tops & Roeland van Hout……………………………………… 227
Instability of the [r] ~ [ʀ] alternation in Montreal French:
An exploration of stylistic conditioning in a sound change in progress
Gillian Sankoff & Hélène Blondeau…………………………………………………………….. 249
List of contributors…………………………………………………………………………………… 267