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yod-dropper en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A person whose speech features yod-dropping.
   • However, there were also several recurrent features at odds with this general pattern: the speaker was variably rhotic, i.e. he pronounced the /r/ in words such as car; he was a yod-dropper, i.e. he did not pronounce post-consonantal /j/ in words such as news; and he pronounced the in the name Palmer, which in almost all British dialects is phonologically /pɑːmə(r)/. 2019, Paul Foulkes, Peter French, Kim Wilson, “LADO as Forensic Speaker Profiling”, in Peter L. Patrick, Monika S. Schmid, Karin Zwaan, editors, Language Analysis for the Determination of Origin: Current Perspectives and New Directions (Language Policy), Springer, →ISBN, part II (Lado Analysis), page 99:
   • By contrast, Chad, 44, has no academic connection and is, correctly, a self-reported yod-dropper. 2015, Stefan Dollinger, The Written Questionnaire in Social Dialectology: History, Theory, Practice (IMPACT: Studies in Language and Society), 40, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 85:
   • British English speakers are reluctant yod-droppers here. 2002, Kate Burridge, Blooming English: Observations on the Roots, Cultivation and Hybrids of the English Language, ABC Books, →ISBN, page 31:

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