intervocalic

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• Since regular phonetic development had voiced the intervocalic /-k-/, the final element was no longer recognizable by speakers, who then proceeded to add the preposition con once more: conmigo, contigo, consigo.

  Academic text (1990)

• But here we find that the nasal quality of the intervocalic -n-, which had lost its independent consonantal status, spread onto the following vowel, a development typical of Galician (Maia 575-76, 751 fn. 2).

  Academic text (1996)

• The dropping of the intervocalic d?

  Fiction book (1993)

• The second round of spirantization eliminated those short counterparts of the intervocalic geminate stops by making them spirants.

  Academic text (2000)

• This would be difficult to justify here, for the rhotacism of intervocalic 's' is a phenomenon of pre-Classical Latin, and although rhotacism is much more common in Spanish than has often been realized, it does not occur in intervocalic position but only before voiced consonants.

  Academic text (1994)

• This would be difficult to justify here, for the rhotacism of intervocalic 's' is a phenomenon of pre-Classical Latin, and although rhotacism is much more common in Spanish than has often been realized, it does not occur in intervocalic position but only before voiced consonants.

  Academic text (1994)

• But as rhotacism of intervocalic s does not occur as a phonological process in Classical or Vulgar Latin nor in Romance, there is simply no way to arrive at eres by this route, even though eris itself had originally been a product of rhotacism.

  Academic text (1994)

• In my judgment, that second round of spirantization, which eliminated from the phonetic level all intervocalic simple voiced stops, compelled speakers to reanalyze the geminates as simple stops in Hispano-Romance.

  Academic text (2000)

• The other two options involved reassignment to the voiceless stop or voiced stop phonemes, realized phonetically in intervocalic position as voiceless stops and voiced spirants, respectively.

  Academic text (2000)

• In linguistics, the term intervocalic refers to sounds positioned between two vowels, such as the 't' in 'butter'.

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