Nonrhoticity
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Nonrhoticity is a noun meaning Alternative form of non-rhoticity.
Meaning
Alternative form of non-rhoticity.
Example Sentences
The best-known features of ENE speech are its traditional nonrhoticity.
This impression is due to certain segmental features (nonrhoticity, vowel quality), but also to sentence intonation patterns.
The occasional retentions are probably 'unresolved' variation from the input dialects, which must have been partly rhotic, as full nonrhoticity was not achieved even in southern English standards until the later nineteenth century.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include nonreciprocity, nonfertility, nonorthogonality, nonvirulence, nonergodicity, nonadiabaticity.
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