rhotacism

Examples

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• This would be difficult to justify here, for the rhotacism of intervocalic 's' is a phenomenon of pre-Classical Latin, and although rhotacism is much more common in Spanish than has often been realized, it does not occur in intervocalic position but only before voiced consonants.

  Academic text (1994)

• For rhotacism to operate, however, the s must be voiced, since only a voiced s undergoes this change.

  Academic text (1994)

• Consequently, any etymology that requires rhotacism to account for the 'r' must be dismissed out of hand.

  Academic text (1994)

• But as rhotacism of intervocalic s does not occur as a phonological process in Classical or Vulgar Latin nor in Romance, there is simply no way to arrive at eres by this route, even though eris itself had originally been a product of rhotacism.

  Academic text (1994)

• But as rhotacism of intervocalic s does not occur as a phonological process in Classical or Vulgar Latin nor in Romance, there is simply no way to arrive at eres by this route, even though eris itself had originally been a product of rhotacism.

  Academic text (1994)

• The study of rhotacism reveals how the consonant /s/ can evolve into /r/ in certain languages.

• In historical linguistics, rhotacism explains the transformation of the 's' sound into an 'r' sound between vowels.

• Linguists use rhotacism to analyze changes in pronunciation that occur over time in various language families.

Synonyms

C

consonant mutation

vsrhotacism

• Specialized

9.9

A change in a word's first consonant sound caused by grammar in languages like Welsh

is a specific historical change where s or z becomes r between vowels

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology