linking r

American  

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 becomes intervocalic, as in far away pronounced as

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

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Etymology

Origin of linking r

First recorded in 1945–50