Definitions For Rhotic

Noun

RHOTIC (plural RHOTICs) (phonetics) A rhotic consonant or rhotic vowel (r-coloured vowel).

Hyponyms

rhotic phoneme R-coloured vowel

Adjective

(not comparable) (linguistics, of an English accent) That allows the phoneme {{IPAchar, /ɹ/}} even when not followed by a vowel, as in bar ({{IPAchar, /bɑːɹ/}}) and bard or barred ({{IPAchar, /bɑːɹd/}}); (of an English speaker) who speaks with such an accent. : {{ux, en, 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.}} (linguistics, phonetics, of a phoneme) Having a sound quality associated with the letter r; having the sound of any of certain IPA symbols, including {{IPAchar, /ɹ/}}, {{IPAchar, /ɻ/}}, {{IPAchar, /ɚ/}}, {{IPAchar, /ɝ/}} and {{IPAchar, /r/}}. : {{ux, en, 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 ({{IPAfont, ˞}} ) to the right of the regular symbol for the vowel. The rhotic consonants are {{IPAchar, /r/}}, {{IPAchar, /ɾ/}}, {{IPAchar, /ɹ/}}, {{IPAchar, /ɻ/}}, {{IPAchar, /ʀ/}}, {{IPAchar, /ʁ/}}, {{IPAchar, /ɽ/}} and {{IPAchar, /ɺ/}}.}}

Antonyms

non-rhotic

Derived terms

prerhotic rhoticity

Related terms

rhotacism

Etymology

{{back-form, en, rhotacism}}, coined 1968 by w:john c. wells, john c. wells. {{examples, Pronunciation of the English word air in a rhotic (American) and non-rhotic (British) accent respectively: (audio stream unavailable) (audio stream unavailable) }}