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- noun The quality of being
rhotic .
Etymologies
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Non-rhoticity in English means that /r/ as a phoneme occurs only when the following sound is a consonant.
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Non-rhoticity in English means that /r/ as a phoneme occurs only when the following sound is a consonant.
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The lowest-rhoticity accent of English is deep-south US.
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I prefer to describe accents as high-rhoticity and low-rhoticity.
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Where there are two Rs in the word, many native speakers of English, regardless of rhoticity, have a tendency to drop the first.
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I have no problem producing rhoticity while anchoring the tip of my tongue beneath my bottom front teeth.
On /r/s and ofs DC 2008
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Also, I think that the retroflex quality is not the primary feature in rhoticity.
On /r/s and ofs DC 2008
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The accent of the American Deep South used to be non-rhotic, although rhoticity has also made great inroads there, as it has in New England, also a non-rhotic area in the past.
On /r/s and ofs DC 2008
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I left out the ad-hoc pronunciations for "pasta" because I don't know how to do it unambiguously, "serviette" because I don't know how to show /3:/ without implying rhoticity, and "napkin" because it's too bloody obvious -:
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There's a hell of a lot of rhoticity going on there!
Obscene Desserts The Wife 2010
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