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0.1535 0.7743

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d. card with pharyngealized/uvularized vowel (12 yr-old boy)

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0.009956 0.4234

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e. car with plain vowel (11 yr-old boy)

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0.08269 0.6786

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f. far with vowel followed by weak frication (14 yr-old boy)

Figure 6. Spectrograms illustrating the four auditory variant categories shown in
Figure 5. Articulated /r/ is shown on the left in (a)–(c); vowel variants on the right –
pharyngealized/uvularized vowel (d), plain vowel (e), and vowel followed by weak
frication (f ). All recordings were made in 2003 in Glasgow.