intervocaladj.
/ɪntəˈvəʊkəl/ Occurring between vowels.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > vowel > [adjective] > before, after, or between
bivocalized1876
postvocalized1876
prevocalized1876
intervocalic1887
postvocalic1889
intervocal1891
prevocalic1909
1891 A. L. Mayhew Synopsis Old Eng. Phonol. §405 OE. b = Vulgar Latin b = L. p (intervocal).
1896 P. Toynbee Brachet's Hist. Gram. French Lang. 89 A medial consonant may be..intervocal (i.e. placed between two vowels).
Derivatives
intervoˈcalic adj. (more usual) in same sense.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > vowel > [adjective] > before, after, or between
bivocalized1876
postvocalized1876
prevocalized1876
intervocalic1887
postvocalic1889
intervocal1891
prevocalic1909
1887 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 8 490 Showing..that intervocalic i of the Provencal MSS. should not invariably be reproduced as j.
1900 N.E.D. at Intervocal Mod. The loss of Latin intervocalic t and d in Old French, as in rota, roue, sūdare, suer.
intervoˈcalically adv.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > vowel > [adverb]
vocally1871
prevocalically1943
intervocalically1950
postvocalically1957
1950 D. Jones Phoneme 22 Double k occurs only inter~vocalically.
1964 R. H. Robins Gen. Linguistics viii. 327 Cockney speakers often have glottalized stops inter~vocalically.
1972 Language 48 465 Whatever analysis is adopted, the patterning of these segments is admittedly anomalous. They occur only intervocalically.
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adj.1887