rhetorical question n
a forceful statement which has the form of a question but which does not
expect an answer. For example, “What difference does it make?” which
may function like the statement, “It makes no difference”.
rhetorical structure n
another term for scheme
rhetorical structure analysis n
in discourse analysis or text analysis, the study of units of meaning usually
beyond the level of sentences, how they relate to one another in a hierarchy
and how such functional acts as exemplification, summary, expansion, etc.,
are added to core propositions to construct a finished text.
rhotacization n
the auditory property known as r-colouring that results from the lowering
of the third formant.
rhotic adj
a form of English in which /r/ can occur after a vowel and within a syllable
in words such as car,bird,early. Most forms of American English are
rhotic, whereas most forms spoken in the southern part of England are
nonrhotic.
rhyme adj
the nucleus +coda of a syllable, for example, the /eyn/ of rain.
rhythm n
see speech rhythm
right brain n
another term for right hemisphere
right branching direction n
see branching direction
right dislocation n
see left dislocation
right ear advantage n
in dichotic listening tasks, most subjects more correctly identify linguistic
stimuli delivered to the right ear than to the left. This is taken as evidence
for left hemisphere processing of language.
rhetorical question