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R-coloured vowel

noun

Definitions

  1. A vowel modified so that the frequency of its third formant is lowered.

    • [ɚ] is an R-coloured vowel; its non-rhotacised form is [ə].
    • Words such as start, better, and turn, for example, are likely to be pronounced with a lengthened vowel instead of the r-coloured vowel. While this type of substitution may simply sound like a quaint accent, it may also cause[…]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for R-coloured vowel. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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