English Dictionary

hard r

名詞

くだけた表現 アメリカ英語 前置詞句

(phonetics, phonology, informal) a rhotic sound which is emphatic or strongly enunciated; in English accents especially a postvocalic consonantal r, as distinguished from its absence in a nonrhotic accent or from an R-coloured vowel

日本語の意味

（名詞）強くはっきり発音されるr音、特に英語の発音における後母音に続く強調されたr音を指す。

The linguist pointed out a distinctive hard r in the speaker's pronunciation.

言語学者は話者の発音に特徴的な、強く発音される有舌音があることを指摘した。

意味（1）

(phonetics, phonology, informal) a rhotic sound which is emphatic or strongly enunciated; in English accents especially a postvocalic consonantal r, as distinguished from its absence in a nonrhotic accent or from an R-coloured vowel

Rhineland Germans have a soft, back r, while those in eastern and southern Germany use an alveodental r, due (one supposes) to the respective influence of the French on the one hand and Slavs or Italians on the other. The hard r is said to carry better in an auditorium or on the radio, so performers from the Rhineland must learn to deliver those theatrical r's.

意味（2）

(US, in particular), the hard r at the end of the word nigger when spoken with a General American accent and considered maximally racist; as distinct from the African-American Vernacular English pronunciation conventionally spelled nigga, whose final sound is sometimes called soft a

First and foremost / You are under no circumstances / Ever permitted / To say the n-word / I don't care if it's soft a or hard r

hard r's （ plural ）