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Meaning of "rhotic"

rhotic (adjective) - a linguistic term used to describe accents or dialects that pronounce the 'r' sound strongly
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  • That allows the phoneme /ɹ/ even when not followed by a vowel, as in bar (/bɑːɹ/) and bard or barred (/bɑːɹd/); (of an English speaker) who speaks with such an accent.
  • Having a sound quality associated with the letter R; having the sound of any of certain IPA symbols, including /ɹ/, /ɻ/, /ɚ/, /ɝ/ and /r/.
  • A rhotic consonant or rhotic vowel (R-coloured vowel).

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It is not clear if the rhotic is a trill or a tap.
The Frisian languages usually retain an alveolar rhotic.
To represent the second rhotic rho gets an additional stroke.
Most prominent is the proliferation of rhotic vowels.
In syllables in which the rhotic coda is added as a suffix to another morpheme.
German and Austrian speakers tend to be variably rhotic.
The Midwestern accent makes use of the rhotic speech discussed above.
The English spoken in Asia is predominantly rhotic.
Colonial Americans spoke rhotic English in a variety of regional dialects.
North Central speech is rhotic.
English has rhotic and non-rhotic accents.
Sri Lankan English may be rhotic.
Speakers tend to pronounce the rhotic consonant as, rather than an alveolar trill.
Most North American speech is rhotic.
The rhotic consonants may either be trills or taps, depending on the speaker.

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The traditional Muskogee Creek Language lacks a rhotic phoneme.
Outside of these uvular rhotic core areas, the alveolar trill is common.
Polynesian languages typically have only one liquid, which may be either a lateral or a rhotic.
Some languages have rhotic and non-rhotic varieties, which differ in the incidence of rhotic consonants.
In modern Dutch, quite a few different rhotic sounds are used.
It may be rhotic or non-rhotic.
In linguistics, guttural R ( sometimes called French R ) refers to pronunciation of a rhotic consonant as a guttural consonant.
Anglo-Romani may sometimes be rhotic even in parts of the country that are non-rhotic.
The COMMA vowel pronounced as in Received Pronunciation, unlike the rhotic Scots variant.
Standard versions of Portuguese have two rhotic phonemes, which contrast only between vowels.
The rhotic / r / is normally a flap, but may be a trill in emphatic speech.
Speakers tend to speak with a rhotic accent and pronounce / r / as or.
As a result, rhotic consonants are generally transcribed with the < r > character.
There is no preferred sound for / r / ; any rhotic sound is equally acceptable.
The alveolar rhotic / r / is a tap between vowels, and a usually voiceless trill finally.
Most non-alveolar trills, such as the bilabial one, however, are not considered rhotic.
The only Greek rhotic / r / is prototypically an alveolar tap, often retracted.
In Vietnamese, depending on dialect, the rhotic can occur as, or.
Rhotic pronunciation, with / r / pronounced as a trill or a flap.
Standard Chinese features syllables that end with a rhotic coda / ɚ /.
In rhotic dialects, / r / is pronounced in most cases.
The American accent ( with some exceptions, as we will discuss below ) is rhotic.
Many of such slang words employ the rhotic suffix " - r ", which is known as erhua.
Unlike the older Florida Cracker dialect, " Miami accent " is rhotic.
The most typical rhotic sounds found in the world 's languages are the following, [ 1 ].
In a variety of regional dialects -- Scots-Irish, Colonial Americans spoke rhotic English.
In Hebrew, Resh ( ר ֵ יש ׁ ) represents a rhotic consonant that has different realizations for different dialects,.
However, others analyze these words instead as having a rhotic vowel, /ɝː/.
Essex speech is non-rhotic, although Mersea Island was rhotic until the mid-20th century.

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