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Phonological Status of R-Sandhi
- Authors: Buraya E.A.1
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- Moscow State Linguistic University
- Issue: No 2(883) (2024)
- Pages: 28-33
- Section: Linguistics
- URL: https://bakhtiniada.ru/2542-2197/article/view/316608
- ID: 316608
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Abstract
R-sandhi is a cover term for two types of liaison aimed at breaking hiatus that occur at word boundaries in non-rhotic accents: linking-r and intrusive-r. Phonetically, they are considered to be the same linguistic phenomenon given the existence of a series of similar factors (phonological, grammatical, lexical) that may influence their usage, and their hiatus-breaking function. Both types of liaison are connected diachronically in the sense that they are the result of historical loss of [r], and intrusive [r] is explained in terms of a process of analogy.
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Elena Anisimovna Buraya
Moscow State Linguistic University
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Email: helen812@list.ru
PhD (Philology), Associate Professor, Associate Professor at the Department of English Phonetics English Language Faculty Moscow State Linguistic University
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