nonrhoticity

English

Etymology

non- +‎ rhoticity

Noun

nonrhoticity (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The state or condition of being nonrhotic.
    • 1996, Celia M Millward, A biography of the English language:
      The best-known features of ENE speech are its traditional nonrhoticity...
    • 2004, Raymond Hickey, Legacies of colonial English: studies in transported dialects:
      The occasional retentions are probably 'unresolved' variation from the input dialects, which must have been partly rhotic, as full nonrhoticity was not achieved even in southern English standards until the later nineteenth century...
    • 2007, Daniel Long, English on the Bonin (Ogasawara) Islands:
      This impression is due to certain segmental features (nonrhoticity, vowel quality), but also to sentence intonation patterns.
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