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Email this article The /r/ which dies hard – a diachronic look at the developments of the rhotic sound in selected Celtic, Germanic and Romance languages
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Phonetically, the archetypal rhotic /r/ is a coronal speech sound that is often half-way between consonants and vowels, usually acting in words as a consonant syllable-wise. Its positional and structural functions in selected languages are described here from a diachronic perspective.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/lsmll.2018.42.1.4
Date of publication: 2018-04-06 09:58:06
Date of submission: 2017-09-29 21:49:50
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