horse-hoarse merger

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /hɔːs ˈhɔːs ˌmɜːdʒə/|/hoːs ˈhoːs ˌməːdʒə/|/hɔːs ˈhɔəs ˌmɜːdʒə/    美 /hoɹs ˈhoɹs ˌmɝdʒɚ/|/hoːs ˈhoːs ˌmɜːdʒə/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A phonemic merger of /ɔɹ/ and /oɹ/, so that pairs of words such as horse and hoarse, war and wore, for and four, etc become homophones.
    — Among the changes, which took place in Dublin English in the 1990s (Hickey 1999), are the following four which are also found in general forms of American English: (a) use of retroflex /r/, in fork [fo:ɻk]; (b) use of an intervocalic alveolar tap, for example in water [wɑɾɚ]; (c) the horse/hoarse‐merger and (d) the which/witch‐merger.
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