单词	postvocalic
释义	postvocalic /ˌpəʊstvə(ʊ)ˈkalɪk / adjective (Of a speech sound) occurring immediately after a vowel.With the exception of the Southern states, eastern New England, and New York City, pronunciation is rhotic, postvocalic /r/ being pronounced in such words as part, four, motor.... Like many features investigated by sociolinguists, the pronunciation of postvocalic /r/ shows a geographically as well as socially significant distribution. The traditional account was that loss of postvocalic /r/ in England was a 17th and 18th century phenomenon.
随便看	short haul short head shorthold short hop shorthorn short hundredweight shortie shortish short-lasting short leet shortlist shortlistee short-lived shortly short mark short measure short metre shortness short of short of breath short order Short Parliament short-pitched short-range short rib

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