Meaning of non-rhoticity | Babel Free

Definitions

The state or condition of being non-rhotic.

rare, uncountable

Examples

“Non-rhoticity is associated with two quite distinct social groups in the south[.] ‘[…] The fact […] has been either over-looked or deliberately ignored’, complains McDavid (1948), in an article reporting his investigations into rhoticity and non-rhoticity in South Carolina.”

“In the present⟳ analysis, we coded for the variants [ɹ], [ʁ], [ɾ], [ʋ], and [ɹ̝], and the zero variant [∅] to indicate⟳ non-rhoticity in postvocalic positions[.] […] Non-rhoticity appears to be (near-)categorical for all speakers.”

“It is surely not a coincidence that non-rhoticity developed in North America along the East Coast. […] In no case did it spread⟳ very far inland, except in the case of speakers of African American Vernacular English, who migrated from the southeast to the rest⟳ of the country many decades later, taking their non-rhoticity with them.”

“The discussion on when and how non-rhoticity began to spread⟳ in England is also relevant for the reconstruction of the development of non-rhoticity in North America.”

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