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rhotacism

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rhotacism
[rō′təsizm]
a speech disorder consisting of imperfect pronounciation of the sound. Also called pararhotacism. Compare lallation.


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2001 "On Rs, rhotacism and paleophony", Journal of the International Phonetic Association 31/2: 171-185.
subject to rhotacism whereby *z became r medially (but was dropped in word-final position) and was preserved in Old English as the alternation of s ~ r.
The following chapter is in turn an attempt to train the reader to unearth the fossilized allomorphy in that it introduces the further, less transparent allomorphic phenomena such as ablaut, rhotacism and metathesis as well as two types of cognates, i.
 
 
 
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