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linking r

–noun Phonetics.
1. the r-sound as reintroduced into an utterance where there is an r in the spelling by speakers of an r-dropping dialect when a postvocalic r they would normally drop, as in the pronunciation of far as[fah] , becomes intervocalic, as in far away pronounced as[fahr-uh-wey] .
2. Also called intrusive r. the r-sound as inserted analogously by speakers of an r-dropping dialect between vowels where there is no corresponding r in the spelling, as in the pronunciation of Cuba is as[kyoo-buh-riz] .

Origin:
1945–50
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