Intervocalic

Word INTERVOCALIC
Character 12
Hyphenation in ter vo cal ic
Pronunciations /ˌɪntəvəʊˈkælɪk/

Definitions and meanings of "Intervocalic"

What do we mean by intervocalic?

Occurring between vowels. adjective

Between vowels.

Situated between vowels; immediately preceded and followed by vowel sounds adjective

Existing or occurring between vowels. adjective

Existing or occurring between vowels.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Intervocalic

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The word "intervocalic" in example sentences

Note 92: Here, as in cases previously noted, the presence of intervocalic * d, as in the prior * - dele, * - dara, and * - bobod - examples, is diagnostic of a loanword because these * d are not a regular Ruvu outcomes. back ❋ Unknown (2008)

Obviously it can't be everything, so only intervocalic consonants before an elided final vowel? ❋ Unknown (2008)

Thus the final two syllables still have the same duration as before and vocalic length merely transfers to the previous intervocalic consonant. ❋ Unknown (2008)

My discovery of all this prompted by Janhunen's suggestion that intervocalic *k followed by *i would yield *x has forced me to reconsider much of my earlier work on Indo-Uralic. ❋ Unknown (2008)

One Cantonese and two Mandarin ESL learners produced r/l sounds in minimally contrastive English words in simple and complex onset, coda, and intervocalic positions. ❋ Unknown (2008)

This threw me off for a bit, however there is no way to explain the unmotivated change of intervocalic z to ś or vice versa. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The voicing of intervocalic S is a different problem. ❋ Unknown (2007)

In any case the compound seems to be later than OE in which all intervocalic or spirants were voiced. ❋ Unknown (2005)

I've often heard it pronounced "mani-GOTT," with dialectal intervocalic voicing. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Sounds like proper Ringlish if you'll excuse an exaggerated intervocalic rhotacism. ❋ Unknown (2004)

But it might just as well refer to the American pronunciation of the t in butter—that is, not budder but butter without the aspiration normally accorded the intervocalic t in many dialects of British English. ❋ William Safire (2003)

Strictly speaking, this “z” (intervocalic - s -) was not voiced but was a soft voiceless sound, a sibilant intermediate between our s and z. ❋ Unknown (1921)

It is important not to confound this s–z with the voiceless intervocalic s that soon arose from the older lisped ss. ❋ Unknown (1921)

In Latin the intervocalic s was voiceless (English s of "case"); in ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

After Lat. i the v disappeared (rivus-um, Span. rio), but in most other cases it remained as a bilabial spirant euqal in balue to originally intervocalic b (novus-um, Span. nuevo). ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

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