Major cities that have this form of rhotacized ending include Beijing, Tianjin, Tangshan, Shenyang, Changchun, Jilin, Harbin, and Qiqihar. If the word ends in a velar nasal ( ng), the final consonant is lost and the vowel becomes nasalized. In many words, the -r suffix ( simplified Chinese: 儿 traditional Chinese: 兒) is added to indicate some meaning changes. Mandarin speakers call this phenomenon erhua. In Mandarin, the rhotacized ending of some words is the prime way by which to distinguish speakers of Standard Northern Mandarin (Beijing Mandarin) and Southwestern Mandarin from those of other forms of Mandarin in China. In certain particular cases, a vowel + /r/ is pronounced instead as two syllables: a non-rhotic vowel followed by a syllabic /r/.
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However, there have always been other singing styles in which r-colored vowels are given their full emphasis, including traditional Irish singing styles and those of many performers of country music. In European classical singing, dropping or weakening of r-colored vowels has been nearly universal and is a standard part of classical vocal training. This can be represented in IPA by using a succession of two symbols such as or, rather than the unitary symbol. In words such as start, many speakers have r-coloring only in the coda of the vowel, rather than as a simultaneous articulation modifying the whole duration. : h earse, ass ert, m irth (stressed, conventionally written ) stand ard, dinn er, Lincolnsh ire (unstressed).The r-colored vowels of General American can be written with "vowel-r" digraphs:
R-colored vowels are found in most rhotic forms of English, including General American and Irish English. The use of the superscript turned r ( əʴ) is still commonly seen. Following the convention of alternating ⟨ ɜ⟩ and ⟨ ə⟩ for non-rhotic accents, ⟨ ɝ⟩ and ⟨ ɚ⟩ signify stressed and unstressed, respectively, rather than a difference in phonetic quality. In 1989, at the Kiel Convention, the hook of ⟨ ɚ⟩ and ⟨ ɝ⟩ was adopted as a diacritic placed on the right side of the vowel symbol for r-colored vowels, e.g. In 1976 the retroflex hook was dropped due to insufficient usage. and added ⟨ ɚ⟩ as a variant of ⟨ ᶕ⟩ in its 1951 chart. The IPA adopted several ways to transcribe r-colored vowels in its 1947 chart: the turned r ⟨ ɹ⟩ the superscript turned r ⟨ əʴ⟩, ⟨ aʴ⟩, ⟨ eʴ⟩, ⟨ ɔʴ⟩, etc. Both ⟨ ɚ⟩ and ⟨ ɝ⟩ were proposed as IPA symbols by editors of the American Speech in 1939 to distinguish it from. This diacritic is the hook of ⟨ ɚ⟩, a symbol constructed by John Samuel Kenyon along with ⟨ ᶔ⟩ by adding the retroflex hook (right hook) to ⟨ ə⟩ and ⟨ ɜ⟩. For example, the IPA symbol for schwa is ⟨ ə⟩, while the IPA symbol for an r-colored schwa is ⟨ ɚ⟩. In the IPA, an r-colored vowel is indicated by a hook diacritic (⟨ ˞ ⟩) placed to the right of the regular symbol for the vowel. They also occur in Quebec French, some varieties of Brazilian Portuguese, some Jutlandic dialects of Danish, as well as in a few indigenous languages of the Americas and of Asia, including Serrano and Yurok in the United States, Luobohe Miao in China, and Badaga in India. In North American English, they are found in words such as doll ar, butt er, th ird, col or, and n urse. However, they occur in two of the most widely spoken languages: North American English and Mandarin Chinese. R-colored vowels are exceedingly rare, occurring in less than one percent of all languages. In addition, the vocal tract may often be constricted in the region of the epiglottis.
R-colored vowels can be articulated in various ways: the tip or blade of the tongue may be turned up during at least part of the articulation of the vowel (a retroflex articulation) or the back of the tongue may be bunched. In phonetics, an r-colored or rhotic vowel (also called a retroflex vowel, vocalic r, or a rhotacized vowel) is a vowel that is modified in a way that results in a lowering in frequency of the third formant. Spectrogram of and its rhotacized counterpart