About The Conference
'r-atics is a workshop intruiged by the variation of rhotics sounds over and within the world's languages. 'r-atics gathers an international network of researchers working on different issues concerning /r/ sounds. It is an international workshop that enhances mutual cooperation in a friendly environment on phonetic, phonological, sociolinguistic and diachronic aspects of rhotics.
Topics
- The diversity of /r/ realizations in the world’s languages
- The socio-phonetic aspects of /r/ realizations
- The production and perception of rhotics in a language or in a language family
- The phonological status of /r/ sounds
- Diachronic aspects of /r/ sounds
- The acquisition of rhotics in L1 and L2
- Aspects of corrective phonetics in the pronunciation of /r/ sounds
- Phenomena of /r/ sandhi
