Hwangbo, Young-Shik. 1999. Historical Change and Dialectal Variations of English r. Studies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology 5, 257-282. In this paper, I argue that historical change of r is due to the overall process in which r undergoes weaken...
Hwangbo, Young-Shik. 1999. Historical Change and Dialectal Variations of English r. Studies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology 5, 257-282. In this paper, I argue that historical change of r is due to the overall process in which r undergoes weakening. I propose that this weakening process results in demotion of faithfulness constraints relevant to r realization. It is shown that such analysis of r can explain why r-insertion always and necessarily follows r-deletion, and how such incompatible kind of rules can coexist in a dialect. In addition, it is shown that the rule-based approach to these phenomena is not very successful. (Seoul National University)