单词 | rhotic |
释义 | rhoticadjective rho·tic ˈrō-tik 1 phonetics : of, relating to, having, or being an accent or dialect in English in which an /r/ sound is retained before consonants (as in pronouncing hard and cart) and at the end of a word (as in pronouncing car and far) a rhotic dialect/accent a rhotic speaker Arguably one of the greatest divisions in English is between rhotic and non-rhotic accents, which is to say our speech and accents are immediately distinguishable based on the pronunciation, or lack thereof, of /r/-like sounds. Jordan MacKenzie 2 phonetics, of a vowel : influenced in coloring by an adjacent /r/ sound rhoticity rō-ˈti-sə-tē noun The presence or absence of rhoticity usually provides an instant first indication of the regional speech of a given speaker. Robert Burchfield |
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