Sentence:  Contrary to “traditional” descriptions in the literature, Jamaican English cannot be characterized as predominantly <WSD>rhotic</WSD>, exhibiting an overall degree of rhoticity of approximately 20 per cent. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  That allows the phoneme (/ɹ/) even when not followed by a vowel, as in "bar" ((/bɑːɹ/)) and "bard" or "barred" ((/bɑːɹd/));  who speaks with such an accent.