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vocalic

vocalic

8.6
About vowel sounds in speech like a e i o u
  • adjective
  • /voʊˈkælɪk/
  • Specialized
translation icon : vocal
  • The phonetic analysis focused on the vocalic patterns of speech in various dialects.

That doesn't sound after a vowel post vocalic, they could say.

Examples

  • The two tests used the same words (shown in Appendix A), which included 35 consonant singletons (plus /M/, which was not scored), 10 initial consonant clusters, and vocalic /?/.

    Academic text (2012)

  • The next set of ANOVAs examined the duration of the vocalic portions of the words produced in the LRS task.

    Academic text (2012)

  • That doesn't sound after a vowel post vocalic, they could say.

    Harvard University

  • And the mother greeted the stranger the same way, except in terms of the vocalic envelope by which she greeted the stranger.

  • Five of the children exhibited mild distortions of sibilant sounds, and one exhibited vocalic /r/ distortions.

    Academic text (2012)

  • Before the vocalic sequence /e/ could contract, the form suffered epenthesis of yod, yielding OSp. veyendo.

    Academic text (2001)

  • The French vocalic repertoire includes three to four nasal vowels depending on the dialect (Malmberg, 1971).

    Academic text (2012)

  • On the vocalic side, we are faced with the fact that neither of the first two vowels of the classical Syringa—with a long initial and short tonic vowel—developed as expected in Romance. The initial vowel, which should have remained high, did not in a majority of cases.

    Academic text (1993)

  • According to Lapesa, Grk. v was realized in the earliest Latin borrowings as u, later, under learned pressure as Ifil, a sound which, because it was foreign to the Latin vocalic inventory, inevitably gave way to the eventual outcome, i (61).

    Academic text (1993)

  • In linguistics, a vocalic sound is one that includes a vowel, such as the sounds in the word "apple."

Synonyms

vowellike
vsvocalic
  • Specialized
8.6

Having a sound like a, e, i, o, u

refers to items actually made of or directly relating to vowel sounds

Antonyms

consonantal
  • Specialized
1 7.9

Relating to consonant sounds made with the mouth partly closed, or to writing that shows mainly consonants

How Vowel-Like

vocalic
  • Specialized
8.6
vowellike
  • Specialized
8.6
sonorant
  • Specialized
8.4
consonantal
  • Specialized
1 7.9

Surface Forms

vocalic positive

Morphology

vocalic = vocal (transparent) = vocal + ic

The suffix '-ic' is a common English suffix indicating 'relating to', making the word clearly derived from 'vocal'.

Etymology

Vocalic comes from the Latin root vox, meaning 'voice', and it is the same root as vocal. So vocalic is about the sounds of the voice and means 'relating to vowels'.