{"id":3842,"date":"2011-10-13T12:07:04","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T11:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=3842"},"modified":"2012-06-05T12:47:59","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T11:47:59","slug":"rhotic","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=3842","title":{"rendered":":Rhotic:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pronunciation <strong>GB:<\/strong> <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>\u02c8r\u0259\u028at\u026ak<\/strong><\/span>, <strong>GA:<\/strong> <\/strong> <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>\u02c8ro\u028at\u032c\u026ak<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The name applied to those <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=35\">accents <\/a>of English where the <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>\/r\/<\/strong><\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=709\">phoneme <\/a>may appear before a pause and before a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=1663\">consonant <\/a>as well as before a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=578\">vowel<\/a>. Many American accents are rhotic, as are Scottish, Irish and Western English accents. However, it is clear that the occurrence of <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>\/r\/<\/strong><\/span> is more complicated than a two-way classification of accents into rhotic and non-rhotic varieties would suggest.  Even an accent like <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=3951\">General British English<\/a> (RP), which is supposedly non-rhotic, allows pre-consonantal <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>\/r\/<\/strong><\/span> on occasion.  One example is the word <em>ferrule <\/em><span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>\u02c8ferju\u02d0l<\/strong><\/span>. One solution to this is to label accents as being of high, medium, or low rhoticity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pronunciation GB: \u02c8r\u0259\u028at\u026ak, GA: \u02c8ro\u028at\u032c\u026ak The name applied to those accents of English where the \/r\/ phoneme may appear before a pause and before a consonant as well as before a vowel. Many American accents are rhotic, as are Scottish, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=3842\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":213,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3842"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3842"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4942,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3842\/revisions\/4942"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}