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:

1. •Trills
   

2. •Alveolar [r]
   

3. •Uvular [ʀ]
   

4. •Retroflex [ɽ]
   

5. •Taps and flaps
   

6. •Alveolar tap [ɾ]
   

7. •Alveolar lateral flap [ɺ]
   

8. •Retroflex flap [ɽ]
   

9. •Labiodental flap (perceived as non-rhotic) [ⱱ]
   

10. •Alveolar approximant [ɹ]
    

11. •Molar approximant (aka “braced” /r/) -- see John Wells’s phonetic blog on the VASTA discussion and Erik Singer’s “anchor” [

    

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12. •Retroflex approximant [ɻ]
    

13. •Uvular fricative [ʁ]