vocalic

Adjective

Meaning

Of or pertaining to vowel sounds; consisting of the vowel sounds.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

central back strong front consonant alveolar flat broad singing vowel vocal pronounced explosive verbal voiced

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Antonyms

consonantal small little low strong consonant

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Phrases with the word

non-vocalic semi-vocalic vocalic r

Examples

vocalic sounds Source: Internet

the Gaelic language being uncommonly vocalic Source: Internet

vocalic segments Source: Internet

the vocalic ablaut Source: Internet

Chomsky and Halle represent speech sounds as bundles of plus-or-minus valued features (e.g. vocalic, high, back, anterior, nasal, etc.) The phonological component of each lexical entry is considered to be a linear sequence of these feature bundles. Source: Internet

Likewise, Modern English vocalic Y is pronounced identically to the letter I. But Modern English uses it in only certain places, unlike Middle and early Modern English. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

vocal-centered vocal-focused vocalese vocalic r vocalically vocalics