vocalic

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A subsidiary but by no means unimportant grammatical process is that of internal vocalic or consonantal change.

From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Sapir, Edward

The old ‘Minor Declensions’ had begun to pass over into the vocalic, especially into the i- and a-, declensions in the oldest OHG.

From A Middle High German Primer Third Edition by Wright, Joseph

But a mere comparison of the brief texts given above will bring out another point in favour of Esperanto—its full vocalic endings.

From International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar by Clark, Walter John

Some of these grammatical processes, like suffixing, are exceedingly wide-spread; others, like vocalic change, are less common but far from rare; still others, like accent and consonantal change, are somewhat exceptional as functional processes.

From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Sapir, Edward

In Hebrew, as we have seen, vocalic change is of even greater significance than in English.

From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Sapir, Edward