vocalic


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Synonyms for vocalic

characterized by, containing, or functioning as a vowel or vowels

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being or containing or characterized by vowels

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(59) Kastovsky's vocalic alternations, presented in table 1, are based on historical considerations.
Perfective kasara kusira broke (was) broken ?arsala ?ursila sent (was) sent ?istaqbala ?ustiqbila received (was) received ?akala-t ?ukila-t ate-fem (was) eaten-fem Imperfective yaksiru yuksaru break(s) (is) broken yursilu yursalu send(s) (is) sent yastiqbilu (is) yustaqbalu receive(s) (is) received t-?akulu t-?ukalu fem-eaten (is) fem-eaten Having shown how the vocalic pattern of perfective and imperfective verbs changes from active into passive.
Vocalic consonants, like /l/ and /r/, can be used to be expressive, along with the unpaired consonants, like /m/ and /n/, since all can be vocalized.
f) Chapter 6 presents the results of Fuchs's production study, with sections on vocalic and consonantal durations, syllable durations, sonority, voicing, fundamental frequency, intensity, loudness, speech rate, and word initial glottal stop insertion before vowels.
I found 8 words having 3 vocalic pairs of doubled letters.
(10) The spray and spree of Scots and English can be seen as vocalic variants on spraic, which in Irish already had a less well-attested, apparent synonym spric/sprioc.
assonantal, with syllables echoing their sonorous vocalic centers
The procedure consists of the semiautomatic analysis of the variations in the trajectory of pitch and height perception of the fundamental frequency (of the vocal cords' vibrations) of the vocalic syllable nuclei, as this is the point of greatest loudness, using a purely acoustic base to extract the harmonic peak without the need of phonetic segmentation.
However, the resultant plural is not purely 'sound' since the suffix does not nicely attach but imposes internal changes such as vowel insertion or deletion and vocalic alternation.
* "Do not ask me to tell you where it hurts"--On an individual incapable of vocalic communication.