English-language vowel changes before historic /r/
http://dbpedia.org/resource/English-language_vowel_changes_before_historic_/r/ an entity of type: Thing
In English, many vowel shifts affect only vowels followed by /r/ in rhotic dialects, or vowels that were historically followed by /r/ that has been elided in non-rhotic dialects. Most of them involve the merging of vowel distinctions and so fewer vowel phonemes occur before /r/ than in other positions of a word.
rdf:langString
rdf:langString
English-language vowel changes before historic /r/
xsd:integer
1925926
xsd:integer
1124871269
rdf:langString
Hurry vs. furry
rdf:langString
Example of an American speaker without the Mary–marry–merry merger
rdf:langString
En-ne-hurry furry.ogg
rdf:langString
En-us-ne-worry.ogg
rdf:langString
En-us-worry.ogg
rdf:langString
Mary-marry-merry.ogg
rdf:langString
Distinction between hurry and furry
rdf:langString
Mary–marry–merry
rdf:langString
Speaker with merger: worry
rdf:langString
Speaker without merger: worry
rdf:langString
speech
rdf:langString
In English, many vowel shifts affect only vowels followed by /r/ in rhotic dialects, or vowels that were historically followed by /r/ that has been elided in non-rhotic dialects. Most of them involve the merging of vowel distinctions and so fewer vowel phonemes occur before /r/ than in other positions of a word.
xsd:nonNegativeInteger
71399