| 单词 | yod-dropping |
| 释义 | > as lemmasyod-dropping yod-dropping n. Phonetics the loss or elision of the semivowel /j/ in the pronunciation of certain combinations of sounds in English, typically when following other consonants within the same syllable. ΚΠ 1982 J. C. Wells Accents of English I. ii. 163 The cure vowel is frequently preceded by a yod, /j/... GenAm reflects more widespread Yod Dropping than RP and most other British accents. 1999 J. C. Beal Eng. Pronunc. in Eighteenth Cent. v. 144 Yod-dropping is a sound change (or perhaps a set of sound changes) which is still diffusing in the twentieth century. 2009 A. Radford et al. Linguistics: Introd. (ed. 2) i. iv. 63 Another example is the loss of the glide [j] before [uː] in words such as tune, duke, new, enthusiasm, resume, solution etc., a change commonly known as yod-dropping. < as lemmas |
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