rhotic
adjective
rho·tic
| \ ˈrō-tik
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Definition of rhotic
linguistics
1
of an English accent or dialect
: retaining an /r/ sound before consonants and finally in a word at the end of an utterance
In the rhotic accents … /r/ can occur, with an overt phonetic realization, in a wide variety of phonetic contexts, including preconsonantal and absolute-final environments …— J. C. Wells, Accents of English 1, 1982
2
of a vowel
: influenced in coloring by an adjacent /r/ sound
3
of a speech sound
: constituting an /r/ : possessing an /r/-like sound
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