Rhotic

Quick meaning: Rhotic is an adjective meaning (phonetics) A rhotic consonant or rhotic vowel (R-coloured vowel).

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (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.
2. (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/.

Example Sentences

Near-synonym: retroflex

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.

What is normally understood by the term "trill" is a rhotic consonant of the type seen in the Spanish word perro 'dog', or the usual pronunciation of the phoneme /r/ in Parisian French.

The rhotic tokens were analyzed as /r/-ful on both occasions. In addition, the researcher conducting the acoustic analysis of F₃ also held the impression that all analyzed tokens were rhotic. Some tokens were highly constricted and others were more weakly rhotic.

Word Forms

• rhotics

Synonyms for rhotic

Depending on context, synonyms include retroflex.

Antonyms for rhotic

Common opposites include non-rhotic.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include non-rhotic, r-less, rhabdic, raughty, roight, rhabarbarate.

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