postvocalic

adj

postvocalic

adj

UK /ˌpəʊstvəʊˈkælɪk/

Etymology From post- + vocalic.

1

Human sciences, Linguistics, Phonetics, Phonology, Sciences (Of a phoneme) occurring after a vowel.

Final post-vocalic /r/ in farmer in English rural dialects of the 1950s (captioning a linguistic map).

Derived terms: postvocalically
Related terms: intervocalic, prevocalic, non-prevocalic

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