rhotic

a. [语]发r音的,辅音前的r全部读出的

发音

UK /ˈɹəʊ.tɪk/
UK /ˈɹəʊ̯.t(ʰ)ɪk/
US /ˈɹoʊ.tɪk/
US /ˈɹoʊ̯.ɾɪk/
IN /ˈr(h)o.ʈɪk/
IN /ɾ(ʱ)oː.ʈɪk/

词形变化

rhotics 复数 rhotics

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A rhotic consonant or rhotic vowel (R-coloured vowel).

    语言学

    2012, Rebeka Campos-Astorkiza, 5: The Phonemes of Spanish, José Ignacio Hualde, Antxon Olarrea, Erin O'Rourke (editors), The Handbook of Hispanic Linguistics, John Wiley & Sons (Wiley-Blackwell), page 100, Spanish also has two rhotics, a tap /ɾ/(vibrante simple) and a trill /r/(vibrante múltiple).

adj.
  1. 1.

    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.

    语言学

    Rhotic speech is common in Ireland, Scotland, much of the United States, Canada, West Country England, and many parts of the north and west of England.

    2009, Ingrid Rosenfelder, Rhoticity in educated Jamaican English, Thomas Hoffmann, Licia Siebers, World Englishes – Problems, Properties and Prospects: Selected Papers from the 13th IAWE Conference, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Contrary to “traditional” descriptions in the literature, Jamaican English cannot be characterized as predominantly rhotic, exhibiting an overall degree of rhoticity of approximately 20 per cent.

  2. 2.

    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/.

    语言学

    Near-synonym: retroflex

    In the IPA, a rhotic vowel (aka R-coloured vowel, retroflex vowel, vocalic r or rhotacised vowel) is indicated by the affixing of a hook diacritic ( ˞ ) to the right of the regular symbol for the vowel. The rhotic consonants are /r/, /ɾ/, /ɹ/, /ɻ/, /ʀ/, /ʁ/, /ɽ/ and /ɺ/.

相关短语

rhotic hook

词源

Back-formation from rhotacism, coined in 1968 by John C. Wells.

来源：wiktionary