Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Occurring between vowels.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Between vowels.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Phon.) Situated between vowels; immediately preceded and followed by vowel sounds
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective linguistics Existing or occurring between
vowels .
Etymologies
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Examples
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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
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Obviously it can't be everything, so only intervocalic consonants before an elided final vowel?
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Obviously it can't be everything, so only intervocalic consonants before an elided final vowel?
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Thus the final two syllables still have the same duration as before and vocalic length merely transfers to the previous intervocalic consonant.
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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.
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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.
Laryngeal abuse - Phonemes caught in the reconstructive crossfire 2008
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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.
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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.
Archive 2007-12-01 2007
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The voicing of intervocalic S is a different problem.
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In any case the compound seems to be later than OE in which all intervocalic or spirants were voiced.
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