Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "In common parlance, "guttural R" is the phenomenon whereby a rhotic consonant (an "R-like" sound) is produced in the back of the vocal tract (usually with the uvula) rather than in the front portion thereof and thus as a guttural consonant. Due to strong association with French, guttural R is sometimes thought of as "French R". Such terms are normally avoided in linguistic description in part due to their imprecision. Speakers of languages with guttural R typically regard guttural and coronal rhotics to be alternative pronunciations of the same phoneme, despite articulatory differences. Similar consonants are found in other parts of the world, but they often have little to no cultural association or interchangeability with coronal rhotics (such as [r], [ɾ], and [ɹ]) and are (perhaps) not rhotics at all.Guttural realization of a lone rhotic consonant is typical in most of what is now France, French-speaking Belgium, Germany, Denmark and the southernmost parts of Sweden and Norway; it is also frequent in the Netherlands, Dutch-speaking Belgium and Switzerland. It also occurs as the normal pronunciation of one of two rhotic phonemes (usually replacing an older alveolar trill) in most of Portugal, various parts of Brazil, among minorities of other Portuguese-speaking regions, and in parts of Puerto Rico, Cuba and the Dominican Republic."@en }
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- Q1401321 abstract "In common parlance, "guttural R" is the phenomenon whereby a rhotic consonant (an "R-like" sound) is produced in the back of the vocal tract (usually with the uvula) rather than in the front portion thereof and thus as a guttural consonant. Due to strong association with French, guttural R is sometimes thought of as "French R". Such terms are normally avoided in linguistic description in part due to their imprecision. Speakers of languages with guttural R typically regard guttural and coronal rhotics to be alternative pronunciations of the same phoneme, despite articulatory differences. Similar consonants are found in other parts of the world, but they often have little to no cultural association or interchangeability with coronal rhotics (such as [r], [ɾ], and [ɹ]) and are (perhaps) not rhotics at all.Guttural realization of a lone rhotic consonant is typical in most of what is now France, French-speaking Belgium, Germany, Denmark and the southernmost parts of Sweden and Norway; it is also frequent in the Netherlands, Dutch-speaking Belgium and Switzerland. It also occurs as the normal pronunciation of one of two rhotic phonemes (usually replacing an older alveolar trill) in most of Portugal, various parts of Brazil, among minorities of other Portuguese-speaking regions, and in parts of Puerto Rico, Cuba and the Dominican Republic.".