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单词 postvocalic
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postvocalic

/ˌpəʊstvə(ʊ)ˈkalɪk /
adjective
(Of a speech sound) occurring immediately after a vowel.With the exception of the Southern states, eastern New England, and New York City, pronunciation is rhotic, postvocalic /r/ being pronounced in such words as part, four, motor....
  • Like many features investigated by sociolinguists, the pronunciation of postvocalic /r/ shows a geographically as well as socially significant distribution.
  • The traditional account was that loss of postvocalic /r/ in England was a 17th and 18th century phenomenon.
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