Why are rhotic consonants difficult to describe?

a) because there is a gliding movement during their production
b) because they occur infrequently in General American English
c) because their production is context- and speaker dependent
d) because there is confusion between the rhotic consonants and the central vowels with r-coloring


c) because their production is context- and speaker dependent

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