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]