Arts
After our overview episode last week, Phil and Eric look in greater detail at the full range of R consonant variation. We follow the Rhotic Consonants page on wikipedia as a means of tracking the various possible articulations. You can follow along, too! We cover: • Trills • Alveolar [r] • Uvular [ʀ] • Retroflex [ɽ] • Taps and flaps • Alveolar tap [ɾ] • Alveolar lateral flap [ɺ] • Retroflex flap [ɽ] • Labiodental flap (perceived as non-rhotic) [ⱱ] • Alveolar approximant [ɹ] • Molar approximant (aka “braced” /r/) -- see John Wells’s phonetic blog on the VASTA discussion and Erik Singer’s “anchor” [] • Retroflex approximant [ɻ] • Uvular fricative [ʁ]