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prevoˈcalic, a.
Also (occas.) prae-vocalic.
[pre- B. 1.]
Before a vowel; of or pertaining to the position before a vowel. Hence prevoˈcalically adv.
1909in Webster. 1934M. K. Pope From Latin to Mod. French ii. xvii. 223 In educated speech throughout the sixteenth century final consonants, whether single or supported, were maintained when in prae-vocalic position in the phrase. 1943A. L. Kroeber in Univ. Calif. Publ. Linguistics I. 30 The stops p, t, k are universal and stable. In the Arizona dialects they are less aspirated, prevocalically, than in other languages and have often been written b, d, g. 1949Language XXV. 400 It is..improbable that l [in Umbrian] was treated differently before i̯ and prevocalic ĭ. 1957N. Frye Sound & Poetry 114 The two methods are even more sharply contrasted in the line endings of the two poets, where the frequencies of Spenser's prevocalic and Milton's postvocalic clusters are more than doubled. 1964R. H. Robins Gen. Linguistics 101 In Scots English, /r/ occurs both prevocalically and postvocalically. 1966[see chest register s.v. chest 10 b]. 1970B. M. H. Strang Hist. English i. ii. 51 Dark l post-vocalically, and clear l pre- or inter-vocalically. 1976Archivum Linguisticum VII. 164 Both to postulate an analogical extension of the pre-vocalic forms, since in the majority of the cases they do not even exist, and to assume lost vowels, is to beg the question. |