[æ]→[r]Certainty: 4/5Commonality: 2/5

Near-open front unrounded vowel to Alveolar trill

The shift from the front vowel [æ] (or its lengthened variant [æː]) to a rhotic consonant [r] typically occurs as a form of hiatus resolution in non-rhotic English dialects. This is known as the 'intrusive R'.

Phonetic Effects

Intrusive R, Hiatus Resolution, Epenthesis

Language Examples

English (Non-rhotic dialects) Germanic

pasta and sauce [æ]→pasta-r-and [æɹə]— In dialects where final 'a' is pronounced closer to [æ], an intrusive R is inserted before a following vowel to prevent hiatus.

Related Transformations

Reverse

More Germanic Shifts

[a] → [ã] — Assimilatory Nasalization [a] → [∅] — Elision [a] → [ʔ] — Glottalization [a] → [ə] — Vowel Reduction [æ] → [ɛ] — Vowel Raising

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