rhoticity

This is also the area in which rhoticity is most common.

The closer that one gets to Manchester and Liverpool, rhoticity dies out.

Rhoticity and rhotic consonants vary greatly in Dublin English.

However in places with recent British migration, especially British Columbia, rhoticity is often less pronounced.

Rhoticity and mergers before /r/.

The dialect shows unique features in pronunciation, e.g. lack of rhoticity, in syntax and vocabulary, which portray the various sociohistorical influences.

In some accents, syllabification may interact with rhoticity, resulting in homophones where non-rhotic accents have centering diphthongs.

As with other IPA diacritics, such as length, aspiration, and rhoticity, the stress mark may be doubled to indicate an extra degree of stress.

The south-east coast accents traditionally have several features in common with the West country; for example, rhoticity and the a: sound in words such as bath, cast, etc.

Thus the urban speech of Bristol or Southampton is more accurately described as variably rhotic, the degree of rhoticity being reduced as one moves up the class and formality scales.

Rhoticity was further supported by Hiberno-English, West Country English and Scottish English as well as the fact most regions of England at this time also had rhotic accents.

In the 1930s the Dravidian language Badaga had two degrees of rhoticity among all five of its vowels, but few speakers maintain the distinction today, and then only in one or two vowels.

The phrase park the car in Harvard Yard is commonly used to caricature the lack of rhoticity in eastern New England, which contrasts with the generally rhotic accents common elsewhere in North America.

Julie Hesmondhalgh, Vicky Entwistle and Julia Haworth, actresses in the soap opera Coronation Street, have East Lancashire accents which have a slightly different intonation and rhythm and also feature clear rhoticity.