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Rhoticism

Rhoticism is a word occasionally encountered when one of the following is intended:

  • Rhotacism (speech impediment), difficulty in pronouncing the /r/ sound
  • Rhotacism (sound change), the historical sound change of another sound to /r/
  • Rhotacization, the articulation used to produce an r-colored vowel
  • Rhoticity:
    • the property of a rhotic consonant
    • the property that distinguishes rhotic and non-rhotic accents