Reversal

[Peter Trudgill]

Isn't one of the most remarkable sound change reversals the 
reintroduction of rhoticity into fomerly non-rhotic American accents? 
It is not at all what one would expect on linguistic-internal 
grounds, overcoming as it does a strong phonotactic constraint, as 
well as consigning a number of vowels to extinction.
-- 
Peter Trudgill  FBA
Adjunct Prof. of Sociolinguistics, Agder Univ., N
Adjunct Prof., RCLT, La Trobe Univ., AU
Prof. Emeritus of Eng. Linguistics, Fribourg Univ, CH
Hon. Prof. of Sociolinguistics, UEA, Norwich, UK


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