Rhotics, or r-sounds, are known to display a large amount of variation, both cross-
linguistically and within particular languages. Dutch is an example of such a language: even …

What does the symbol r mean when it is used in a transcription? Here we analyze the use of
the symbols for the alveolar trills (r) and taps () among the Illustrations of the IPA since 1971 …

Rhotics in many languages develop late and show clinically significant misarticulations. The
English approximant and Spanish trill rhotics exhibit both a primary constriction along the …

Iranian Armenian is the variety of spoken Armenian that was developed by Armenians in
Tehran, Iran over the last few centuries. It has a substantial community of speakers in …

This study has three goals. First, it examines phonological attrition of the Arabic geminate
(ie, long sound)-singleton contrast in the speech of native speakers of Arabic who acquired …

The main goal of this study was to determine whether the geminate-singleton consonant
length contrast attrites across three different generations of Farsi-English-speaking …

Sociophonetics has grown rapidly in recent years, although to some extent the field lacks a
consolidated aim. Sociolinguists use its name for any language variation project that …

This study aimed to adapt and validate the Word Complexity Measure (WCM) for Persian-
speaking toddlers. The WCM is a tool for assessing phonological complexity, originally …

Across languages of the world the/r/sound is known for its variability. This variability has
been investigated using articulatory models as well as in sociolinguistic studies. The current …

In this article we present three preliminary investigations into the acoustics of the/r/sound in
te reo Māori, the Māori language. Investigation A considers the spectrographic …