Using a wide variety of languages I investigate numerous rhotic-vowel interactions and extrapolate that the account of Element Theory is quite successfull in dealing with rhotics as a class.^...Show moreUsing a wide variety of languages I investigate numerous rhotic-vowel interactions and extrapolate that the account of Element Theory is quite successfull in dealing with rhotics as a class.^^Rhotics are an interesting class of phones in the range of human speech sounds as they are tied together by their similar phonological behaviour rather than their phonetic proporties. For this reason previous generative phonological accounts have trouble defining and accounting for the class of rhotics. This thesis researches whether the phonological theory titled Element Theory is able to account for the unified behaviour of rhotics by interpreting rhotics as the vowel primitive (A)Show less