"yod-dropper" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "yod-dropper (plural yod-droppers)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2002, Kate Burridge, Blooming English: Observations on the Roots, Cultivation and Hybrids of the English Language, ABC Books, page 31",
          "text": "British English speakers are reluctant yod-droppers here.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Stefan Dollinger, The Written Questionnaire in Social Dialectology: History, Theory, Practice (IMPACT: Studies in Language and Society), 40, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 85",
          "text": "By contrast, Chad, 44, has no academic connection and is, correctly, a self-reported yod-dropper.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "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, part II (Lado Analysis), page 99",
          "text": "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)/.",
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      "glosses": [
        "A person whose speech features yod-dropping."
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          "yod-dropping",
          "yod dropping"
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  "word": "yod-dropper"
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        {
          "ref": "2002, Kate Burridge, Blooming English: Observations on the Roots, Cultivation and Hybrids of the English Language, ABC Books, page 31",
          "text": "British English speakers are reluctant yod-droppers here.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Stefan Dollinger, The Written Questionnaire in Social Dialectology: History, Theory, Practice (IMPACT: Studies in Language and Society), 40, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 85",
          "text": "By contrast, Chad, 44, has no academic connection and is, correctly, a self-reported yod-dropper.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "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, part II (Lado Analysis), page 99",
          "text": "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)/.",
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        "A person whose speech features yod-dropping."
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          "yod-dropping",
          "yod dropping"
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