rhotic
Sounds the R
Rhotic describes accents or dialects that pronounce the *r* sound after vowels.
In rhotic speech, the *r* in words like *car*, *bird*, and *water* is audible.
Most American, Irish, and Scottish accents are rhotic; most English and Australian accents are not.
She has a rhotic accent—you can hear every r.
Of tooth sockets
Minimal distinctive sound unit
- allophoneNon-distinctive sound variation
- consonantIn agreement with
- liquidFree-flowing substance
- glideMove with effortless continuity
syllable · coda · onset · nucleus · distribution · contrast · variation · merger
From the U.S.
- ScottishOf that northern kingdom
- IrishOf the Emerald Isle
- CanadianNorth American northerner
- West CountryEngland's rural southwest
Caribbean · Bostonian · New Yorker · Liverpudlian · Cornish · Indian English
alveolar
Of tooth sockets
uvular · schwa · vocalization
phoneme
Minimal distinctive sound unit
glide · syllable · coda · onset · nucleus · distribution · contrast · variation · merger · split
American
From the U.S.
West Country · Caribbean · Bostonian · New Yorker · Liverpudlian · Cornish · Indian English