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 Translation for 'rhotacism' from English to Swedish
NOUN   rhotacism | -
ling.
rhotacism {u}
rhotacism
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Translation for 'rhotacism' from English to Swedish

rhotacism
rhotacism {u}ling.
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Usage Examples English
  • Following Roy Hodgson's appointment, "The Sun" mocked his rhotacism manner of speech with a "Bwing on the Euwos!" front-page headline.
  • There is a tendency of rhotacism, replacing intervocalic "d" with "r". Word-final stops and in some cases word-initial "a-" are elided. Suffixes "-iya-" and "-uwa-" may be syncopated to "-i-", "-u-".
  • The medieval ethnonym "Arbanitai" and its corresponding modern ethnonym "Arvanites" have the same etymology as "Albanians", being derived from the stem "Alb-" by way of a rhotacism, "Alb-" → "Arb-" (based on the root *"alban"- and its rhotacized variant *"arban"-).
  • Lambdacism, though, long ago vanished from the Birkenfeld dialect, having given way to the other shift that is customary in Hunsrückisch: rhotacism.
  • That is not properly rhotacism since "r" and "s" are then simply allophones.

  • As a television presenter, she is known for having had a rhotacism, a speech impediment which affected her pronunciation of Rs.
  • This same pronunciation is attested in people with rhotacism, in a new developing variety of young people in São Tomean Portuguese (Bouchard, 2017), and in non-native speakers of French or German origin.
  • Before rhotacism, Old Latin had lots of sibilants, so some had to be substituted to ease the actors' work.
  • The tap /r/, though not phonetically a stop, is represented as such because it patterns as the voiced equivalent of the stop /t/. This may indicate a historical rhotacism.
  • In May 2012, the association criticised a headline and story on the front page of "The Sun" mocking newly appointed England football manager Roy Hodgson's rhotacism.

  • The toponym is significant for the history of the Albanian language since "Kanina" represents a toponym that shows no sign of the dialect phenomenon of rhotacism, which is explained by the fact that the settlement was recorded with the name "Kanina" in a period during which rhotacism in Albanian was no longer active for some time.
  • Dyslalia means difficulties in talking due to structural defects in speech organs, such as sigmatism (defective pronunciation of sibilant sounds, for example "S" pronounced as "TH") and rhotacism, in which the letter "R" pronounced as "I or Y".
  • Refugees from Epidaurus fled to the nearby island Laas or Laus (meaning "stone" in Greek), from which "Ragusa" (through rhotacism) was founded, which over time evolved into Dubrovnik.
  • However, the replacement of [...] by some kind of labial approximant may also occur caused by a type of speech impediment called rhotacism or derhotacization.
  • In Galician, Portuguese and Sardinian, a flap often appears instead of a former [...]. This is part of a wider phenomenon called rhotacism.

  • The Christian dialect of Tat displays typical Tat rhotacism (mutation of Persian [...] into [...]), but differs from other Tat dialects in lacking pharyngeal consonants [...] and [...].
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