单词 | rhoticity |
释义 | > as lemmasrhoˈticity rhoˈticity n. the quality or character of being rhotic. ΚΠ 1970 J. C. Wells in Jrnl. Linguistics 6 249 The most striking characteristic of West Country speech is its rhoticity. 1983 Trans. Yorks. Dial. Soc. lxxxiii. 28 An r would normally be sounded before a consonant or at the end of a word as well as..before a vowel. This area of ‘rhoticity’ is greater than the comparable one for the non-dialect forms of speech. 2002 A. Kautzsch Hist. Evol. Earlier Afr. Amer. Eng. iv. 108 It is..problematic to include are in copula studies if there are no details about the rhoticity of the informants. < as lemmas |
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