denoting or speaking a dialect of English in which postvocalic rs are pronounced
Derived forms
rhoticity (rəʊˈtɪsɪtɪ)
noun
Word origin
from Greek rho, the letter r
Examples of 'rhotic' in a sentence
rhotic
Participants also produced rhotic and non-rhotic words.
Tara McAllister Byun, Mark Tiede 2017, 'Perception-production relations in later development of American English rhotics.',PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5313169?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Perceptual accuracy of rhotic production was assessed by outside listeners in a blinded, randomized fashion.
Tara Mcallister Byun, Heather Campbell 2016, 'Differential effects of visual-acoustic biofeedback intervention for residual speecherrors', Frontiers in Human Neurosciencehttp://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2016.00567/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Two participants had distortions on rhotic sounds, while the third participant demonstrated lateralization of sibilant sounds.
Jonathan L Preston, Megan C Leece, Edwin Maas 2016, 'Intensive treatment with ultrasound visual feedback for speech sound errors in childhoodapraxia', Frontiers in Human Neurosciencehttp://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2016.00440/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)