The phoneme /r/ is particularly variable in Scottish English, and the phonetic realisation appears to be related to a number of linguistic and sociolinguistic factors. However, the relative importance of these factors, particularly for prevocalic /r/, remains unclear for the middle class in places other than major Scottish urban centres. The phonetic realisation of /r/ was analysed for middle-class speakers of the towns of Kinross and Dundee, in both prevocalic and non-prevocalic positions. It appears that the phonological environment has a decisive role in the distribution of the major variants, which are the alveolar tap and the postalveolar or retroflex approximant, as well as the vocalisation of /r/ in non-prevocalic position. The results indicate a change from the tap towards the approximant in Kinross, while Dundee remains more linguistically conservative.

音素/ r /在苏格兰英语中特别易变，并且语音的实现似乎与许多语言和社会语言因素有关。但是，这些因素的相对重要性，特别是对于发声的/ r /而言，对于苏格兰主要城市中心以外的其他地方的中产阶级来说仍然不清楚。对金罗斯和邓迪镇的中产阶级说话者和非说话者的语音实现进行了分析。语音环境似乎在主要变体的分布中起着决定性的作用，这些主要变体是牙槽tap和牙槽后或逆反射近似音，以及在非前音位置发声的/ r /。结果表明，在Kinross中，抽头从近似值变为近似值，