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RHOTIC
Etymology
Adjective
rhotic (not comparable)
(linguistics, of an English accent) 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.
(linguistics, phonetics, of a phoneme) 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/.
Antonyms
• non-rhotic
Noun
rhotic (plural rhotics)
(phonetics) A rhotic consonant or rhotic vowel (R-coloured vowel).
Hyponyms
• (rhotic phoneme): R-coloured vowel
Anagrams
• Ch'orti', Chorti, hortic, thoric, tricho-, trochi
Source: Wiktionary
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ANALYSIS
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
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