R pronunciation in "never eat", etc.

[AlexAD]

Hi, everybody.
I am interested in whether last r in the word followed by another word starting with vowel is pronounced or not. Like in a phrase "never eat".
I am confusing that because sometimes I do hear r but at the other times I don't.
Please, explain it.
Thanks in advance.

[lauralie2]

Hi, everybody.
I am interested in whether last r in the word followed by another word starting with vowel is pronounced or not. Like in a phrase "never eat".
I am confusing that because sometimes I do hear r but at the other times I don't.
Please, explain it.
Thanks in advance.

Some speakers reduce /r/ to schwa (the sound in the), which is when you don't hear it at all, others devoice /r/ (neverh eat), which is when it's hard to hear, and yet others maintain it across the word boundary in fast speech (never reat), which is when it's easy to hear.

[AlexAD]

Thanks for your reply, Lauralie.
As far as I understood I may use all the variants since English isn't my mother tongue. Its seems that the last variant is widely spread in US. Am I right?

[lauralie2]

Its seems that the last variant is widely spread in US. Am I right?

All three are common, even from the same speaker.