Meaning Of The Word Linking r

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linking r in American English
noun: 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 (fɑː), becomes intervocalic, as in far away pronounced

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