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    Acoustic, articulatory and phonological perspectives on rhoticity and /r/ in Dutch.
    (Oxford University Press, 2010-12) Scobbie, James M.; Sebregts, Koen; Folli, Raffaella; Ulbrich, Christiane
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    Dutch Rhotic Allophony, Coda Weakening, and the Phonetics-Phonology Interface
    (QMU Speech Science Research Centre Working Paper, 2009-03) Scobbie, James M.; Sebregts, Koen; Stuart-Smith, Jane
    Evidence is presented that suggests that articulation should be considered separately from acoustics (or the auditory impression) in investigations of the interface between phonetics and phonology. We use Ultrasound Tongue Imaging to show that onset and coda versions of Dutch /r/ can have secondary articulations, categorical allophones, and subtle or covert articulations which have few acoustic implications. Covert rhotic (retroflex) articulation was observed in one speaker, who displayed acoustic derhoticisation. We also consider this finding in relation to ongoing work in Scottish English.
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    Erring on the side of phonology
    (John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014) Strycharczuk, Patrycja; Sebregts, Koen; Auer, Anita; Köhnlein, Björn
    Speakers of Standard Dutch increasingly realise coda /r/ (e.g. paar) as a bunched or retroflex approximant. This coda variant is categorically distinct from onset /r/ (e.g. reizen), which is typically pronounced as a uvular trill or fricative, or an alveolar trill or tap. In this study, we investigate whether coda and onset /r/ in Dutch behave as distinct phonological categories. We present new articulatory and acoustic data on the realisation of /r/ in sandhi contexts, including the fake geminate context (e.g. paar reizen). Ultrasound data show that the presence of an onset /r/ conditions the deletion of a bunching gesture (typical of the coda /r/ realisation) from /r#r/ sequences. Nevertheless, the presence of a coda /r/ in such sequences is still acoustically traceable. We interpret these findings as a result of shared phonological identity between onset and coda /r/, and discuss them in the context of the place of allophony within models of grammar.