| 单词 | linking r |
| 释义 | linking r Phonet. 1. the r-sound as reintroduced into an utterance where there is an r in the spelling by speakers of an r-dropping dialect when a postvocalic r they would normally drop, as in the pronunciation of far as /fah/, becomes intervocalic, as in far away pronounced as /fahr"euh way"/. 2. Also called intrusive r. the r-sound as inserted analogously by speakers of an r-dropping dialect between vowels where there is no corresponding r in the spelling, as in the pronunciation of Cuba is as /kyooh"beuh riz/. [1945-50] |
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