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postvocalic

postvocalic

8.8
Immediately after a vowel sound in a word
  • adjective
  • /ˌpoʊstˈvoʊkəlɪk/
  • Specialized
: postvocálico
  • An example of a postvocalic position is the 'd' in the word 'add', which follows immediately after the vowel sound.
  • postvocalic devoicing
  • postvocalic voicing
  • postvocalic /l/

Examples

  • For example, because the final consonant in the word "glasses" occurs in an unstressed syllable, it would not be considered a valid opportunity for the error patterns of final consonant deletion or postvocalic devoicing.

    Academic text (2015)
  • In summary, evidence from the fields of sociolinguistics and phonetics suggests that vocalization of postvocalic /l/ by adult speakers of American English is pervasive, although there is some variability depending on the dialect spoken and the phonetic context.

    Academic text (2015)
  • Examining the spectrogram of postvocalic liquids can also provide an objective indication of vocalization.

    Academic text (2015)
  • Instead, we eliminated the error pattern of vocalization of postvocalic /l/ and renamed vocalization of /r/ as derhoticization.

    Academic text (2015)
  • The reliability coefficients for prevocalic voicing and postvocalic devoicing were both .85.

    Academic text (2014)
  • All but two error patterns (pre-vocalic voicing and postvocalic devoicing) had a coefficient of at least .90.

    Academic text (2014)
  • The error pattern of postvocalic devoicing occurs when a word-final voiced consonant is replaced by a voiceless consonant. It should be noted that for many adult speakers of English.

    Academic text (2015)
  • For example, the word "pig" occurs three times on the response form for the CAAP–2, one time for each of final consonant deletion, prevocalic voicing, and postvocalic voicing.

    Academic text (2015)
  • In linguistics, a postvocalic consonant comes directly after a vowel sound in a word.

  • The sound change occurs when a postvocalic /r/ is pronounced differently depending on the following vowel.

Surface Forms

postvocalic positive

Morphology

postvocalic = vocalic (transparent) = post + vocal + ic

The adjective is formed by adding the obvious prefix 'post-' (after) to 'vocalic' (relating to vowels), yielding 'after a vowel sound'.

Etymology

Postvocalic breaks into post- meaning 'after' and vocal meaning 'voice' or 'vowel', so it names a sound or letter that comes immediately after a vowel in a word.