Rhotics

By Alessandro Vietti, Carmen-Florina Savu, Lorenzo Spreaficio

Book Overview

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.

This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1013288882
• ISBN13: 9781013288883
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Saint Philip Street Press
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.5" x 11.0"