Four or five - intrusive /r/ in English

English Sound Building - British Pronunciation

10/17/22 • 18 min

Welcome to season 5 of English Sound Building! Today, we’re back with connected speech and another intrusive sound: intrusive /r/. Have fun!

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10/17/22 • 18 min

English Sound Building - British Pronunciation - Four or five - intrusive /r/ in English

Transcript

So, today we’re back with the letter /r/ again, this time looking at how we see it in connected speech, so called intrusive ‘r’. There are three intrusive sounds in English connected speech, and we’ve looked at the other two already: intrusive /j/ (in Episode 32, Be afraid, be very afraid), and intrusive /w/ last season in Episode 43, How are you?).

So, we find intrusive /r/ in between words which end in a schwa /ə/ sound, including the schwa diphthongs /ɪə/,and /eə/, or wit

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