单词 | rhotacization |
释义 | rhotacizationn. Linguistics. 1. The presence of rhotic secondary articulation; the modification of a vowel sound, caused by a following /r/, normally represented by r in the orthography; = r-colouring n. at R n. Compounds. ΚΠ 1948 Bull. School Oriental & Afr. Stud. 12 724 Within a single group an alterance of twenty-seven terms may be arrived at by the use, negative or positive, of seven features, namely: Voice, Aspiration, Nasality, Yotization, Labio-velarization, Lateralization, and Rhotacization. 1964 Bull. School Oriental & Afr. Stud. 27 484/1 The two two-term palatalization..and rhotacization..systems in Arakanese. 1973 Amer. Speech 48 111 The symbol [ɜ] is used for the stressed mid-central vowel whether with or without rhotacization. 1994 J. Laver Princ. Phonetics 270 Almost all vocoids representing vowels show the body of the tongue to have a regularly curved convex surface, with the tip of the tongue held lower than the body. It is possible to modify these articulations by curling the tongue tip up in a retroflex aspect... This is called ‘rhotacization’. 2. The changing of another sound (frequently the phoneme /s/) into the phoneme /r/; = rhotacism n. 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > sound changes > [noun] > rhotacism rhotacism1830 rhotacization1973 1973 J. M. Anderson Struct. Aspects Lang. Change vi. 119 (heading) Rhotacization. Intervocalic /s/ in Latin became /r/, cf */genesis/ > /generis/ and */asena/> /arena/. Elsewhere /s/ remained as inest, senex and equus. 1981 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. lxviii. 24 Should we..write rhotacization rules for the few alternations such as us/our, was/were..or should we treat them as genuine exceptions? 1994 R. Carlson Gram. of Supyire ii. 16 (heading) Rhotacization. When an /s/ beginning an unstressed syllable comes to follow a stressed syllable, it changes to [r]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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