Rhotic
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In linguistics, rhotic can refer to:
- Rhotic consonantRhotic consonantIn phonetics, rhotic consonants, also called tremulants or "R-like" sounds, are liquid consonants that are traditionally represented orthographically by symbols derived from the Greek letter rho, including "R, r" from the Roman alphabet and "Р, p" from the Cyrillic alphabet...
, such as the [ɹ] sound in red - R-colored vowelR-colored vowelIn phonetics, an R-colored or rhotic vowel is a vowel that is modified in a way that results in a lowering in frequency of the third formant...
, such as the [ɝ] sound in Midwestern American English pronunciation of fur and before a consonant as in hard.http://search.oed.com/?&lastq=&sortsel=rel&psel=all&opt=ANY&query=rhotic&corr=rhotic- ErhuaErhuaErhua ; also called erhuayin refers to a phonological process that adds r-coloring or the "ér" sound to syllables in spoken Mandarin Chinese. It is most common in the speech varieties of North China, especially in the Beijing dialect, as a diminutive suffix for nouns, though some dialects also...
- R-coloring /ɚ/ in Mandarin Chinese.
- Erhua
- Rhotic accentRhotic and non-rhotic accentsEnglish pronunciation can be divided into two main accent groups: a rhotic speaker pronounces a rhotic consonant in words like hard; a non-rhotic speaker does not...
, an accent where a rhotic consonant can occur without being followed by a vowel