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rhotics

rhotics is the plural of rhotic.

Meaning of rhotic

Noun

rhotic (plural rhotics)

  1. A rhotic consonant or rhotic vowel (R-coloured vowel).
    • It is well known that the phonetic realization of rhotics varies considerably from language to language, even from dialect to dialect. Rhotics can be realized as flaps, taps, trills (uvular, coronal or bilabial), or as assibilated or fricative variants.1997, Eulàlia Bonet, Joan Mascarò, “On the representation of contrasting rhotics”, in Fernando Martínez-Gil, Alfonso Morales-Front, editors, Issues in the Phonology and Morphology of the Major...

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Questions about rhotics

What is rhotics the plural of?
Rhotics is the plural of rhotic.

Words near rhotics in the dictionary

  1. rhoticity
  2. rhoticize
  3. rhoticized
  4. rhoticizes
  5. rhoticizing
  6. rhotics
  7. Rhoton
  8. Rhotons
  9. rhova
  10. Rhoxolani
  11. RHQ

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