prevocalic
- adjective
- /ˌpriːˈvoʊkəlɪk/
- Specialized
- Thus, a child who pronounces key as di is said to apply the phonological process of velar fronting to convert /ki/ to /ti/ and then the process of prevocalic voicing to convert /ti/ to di.
- prevocalic voicing
Examples
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Substitution patterns were those that involved the substitution of one speech sound for the target sound (e.g., velar fronting, prevocalic voicing, and deaffrication).
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When analyzing speech, the prevocalic consonant can significantly affect pronunciation.
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Therefore, /s/ + stop clusters should not be used as evidence that a child voices prevocalic consonants.
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The reliability coefficients for prevocalic voicing and postvocalic devoicing were both .85.
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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.
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In the word "at", the /t/ is a prevocalic sound before the vowel.
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Linguists often study prevocalic sounds to understand phonetic changes in language.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Prevocalic comes from pre- meaning 'before' and vocal meaning 'voice' or 'vowel', so it literally describes something that comes right before a vowel sound in a word.
