The /r/ which dies hard – a diachronic look at the developments of the rhotic sound in selected Celtic, Germanic and Romance languages

• Authors: Krzysztof Jaskuła
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

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. 

DE

Der Band enthält die Abstracts ausschließlich in englischer Sprache.

FR

Le numéro contient uniquement les résumés en anglais.

RU

Том не содержит аннотаций на английском языке.

Keywords

EN

position; structure; rhotic; theory

DE

FR

RU

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej
• Journal: Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 42
• Issue: 1

Dates

published

2018

online

2018-04-06

Contributors

author

Krzysztof Jaskuła

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Identifiers

DOI

10.17951/lsmll.2018.42.1.4