Re: [cybalist] Linking and intrusive R

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From: Piotr Gasiorowski

In non-rhotic accents of English (those in which R drops word-finally and before consonants) a word-final R was usually retained as a hiatus filer

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(Note: After the high vowels [I], [i:] and [u:] and all upgliding diphthongs the glides [j] and [w] are used as natural hiatus fillers, and R is never inserted

A useful lesson.

 

Hiatus fillers. You've reminded me. English does not like hiatus (two vowels back-to-back, if I've got this right).

 

My 'hiatus fillers' are Y and W. 'Co-operate' usually gets a W where the hyphen is (the two orthographic Os, however. are different vowels). For a word like 'fail', a very short Y is often inserted between the two vowels.

 

Mark.