The Frequency and Degree of “intrusive /r/” in New Zealand English 67The farmer left the plough in the ¿ eld.
The machine is kind of a lawnmower, but is also kind of plough-y.
The plough manufacturing company plans to completely plough-ize farms in New
Zealand
There’s an obsession with sofas sweeping the town, and everyone seems to be speak-
ing sofa-ese.
I personally like to sit on the À oor, but my À atmate plans to sofa-ify the À at.
The furniture salesperson is really annoying, his speech is just full of bed terminol-
ogy, table jargon and sofa-isms.
We’re considering sofa-ing up our lounge.
The chair looks pretty sofa-ish.
The movers put the sofa in the garage.
The chair looked pretty sofa-y.
I personally like to sit on the À oor, but my À atmate plans to sofa-ize the À at.
Notes
1 Preliminary analysis of some of this data has appeared in Hay and Warren (2002).
We thank Malcah Yaeger-Dror for helpful comments on an earlier version of this
paper. We are grateful to Andrea Sudbury for recording some of the participants,
and to Alice Murphy for her contribution to the phonetic analysis.
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