vocalic

[voh-kal-ik] / voʊˈkæl ɪk /

ADJECTIVE

sonant

Synonyms

STRONG

choral lyric oral singing sung voiced vowel

WEAK

articulate articulated expressed intonated modulated operatic phonetic phonic pronounced put into words said spoken uttered verbal viva voce vocalized

ADJECTIVE

vocal

Synonyms

STRONGEST

articulate choral operatic verbal

STRONG

lyric oral singing sonant sung vowel

WEAK

articulated expressed intonated modulated phonetic phonic pronounced put into words said uttered viva voce vocalized voiced

Antonyms

WEAK

introverted modest quiet shy written

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The vocalic mutation of c, p, t, s, f was denoted by writing ch, ph, th, sh, fh, the first three symbols of which were derived from the Latin alphabet.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

Footnote 18: These may be also defined as free unvoiced breath with varying vocalic timbres.

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

All these factors were equally true of the German vocalic shift.

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

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

There are also special quantitative processes, like vocalic lengthening or shortening and consonantal doubling, but these may be looked upon as particular sub-types of the process of internal modification.

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

vocalic

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