Theatre Speech (was: Flapping to another Topic)

[A. Vine]

I can vouch for heavy rhoticity in the English West Country speech.

Beverly Flanigan wrote:
>
> This is interesting--reminds me of "the voice from nowhere" in _American
> Tongues_ (where the Directory Assistance operator says she was chosen for
> her "generic" speech).  The combination of features doesn't seem quite
> right:  Hasn't the voiced-voiceless /w/ distinction been (largely) lost on
> both sides of the Atlantic?  And non- or weak-rhoticity fits only half of
> England (according to Trudgill's maps) and much less than half of the
> U.S.  By "released" intervocalic /t/ do you mean [t]?  Again, this wouldn't
> fit either side of the pond today, would it?
>