How To Use Vocalic In A Sentence
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What I mean by "abuse" is when people, unsatisfied with a protolanguage proven to contain seemingly exotic laryngeals with accompanying vocalic effects, decide to add laryngeals to every stem to account for all long vowels, whether it can be justified or not, and end up succeeding only in muddling the whole grammatical system in the process, obscuring the very thing they attempt to clarify.
Archive 2009-07-01
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In the sphere of concrete concepts too it is worth nothing that the German splits up the idea of killing into the basic concept of dead (tot) and the derivational one of causing to do (or be) so and so (by the method of vocalic change, töot -); the German töot-et (analytically tot-+ vowel change+-et) causes to be dead is, approximately, the formal equivalent of our dead-en-s, though the idiomatic application of this latter word is different311
Chapter 5. Form in Language: Grammatical Concepts
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Thus the final two syllables still have the same duration as before and vocalic length merely transfers to the previous intervocalic consonant.
A few more words on my new Gemination rule for Pre-IE
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After Lat. i the v disappeared (rivus-um, Span. rio), but in most other cases it remained as a bilabial spirant euqal in balue to originally intervocalic b (novus-um, Span. nuevo).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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In compounds like Sugihara there is, and has been, variation as to what counts as intervocalic position.
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With the exception of the Southern states, eastern New England, and New York City, pronunciation is rhotic, postvocalic /r/ being pronounced in such words as part, four, motor.
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Note 92: Here, as in cases previously noted, the presence of intervocalic * d, as in the prior * - dele, * - dara, and * - bobod - examples, is diagnostic of a loanword because these * d are not a regular Ruvu outcomes. back
Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
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Most likely, medial *-h- which was probably a velar fricative became weakened at some point intervocalically and after sibilants.
The loss of mediofinal 'h' in Pre-Proto-Etruscan
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Well – guess what it ends up sounding like…a guy from Sheffield England, imitating DeNiro in some scenes, remembering what his accent coach told him about Baltimore-speak in others e.g. “hours” as [æriz], and generally adding and dropping the post-vocalic [r] sound willy-nilly.
Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » GIMME SOME CAW-FEE!
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The third and fourth syllables have a vowel hiatus between them, which Wampanoag seems to be pretty relaxed about--historically, there would have been a 'w' there, but that 'w' often gets lost intervocalically, especially when the preceding vowel is long, as it is here.
Languagehat.com: WAMPANOAG.
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A quick and easy example of this is Bhadriraju Krishnamurti's use of laryngeals in the 1st and second pronouns *yān 'I' and *nīn 'you' or in his view, *yaHn and *niHn1 to account for lengthening in the nominative which opposes oblique stems *yan- and *nin- lacking added vocalic length.
Archive 2009-07-01
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The Spanish vocalic system consists of five vowel sounds with well-defined parameters so that there is no overlap among them, allowing Spanish vowels to maintain their phonetic clarity whether used in isolation or in context.
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There's no direct evidence for vocalic length nor is it even represented in Linear B.
A new value for Minoan 'd'
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If we actually explore the effects on a schwa sandwiched between two dental plosives using our very own tongue, we should notice that the schwa gains height as we shorten its duration between the stops ie. the vowel becomes increasingly closed, synonymous with vocalic height.
Japanese dialect mirrors suspected PIE development of sibilantization between two dental stops
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On the pronunciation front: tighty and tidy get to be the same in pronunciation in American English via intervocalic flapping, which plays a role in a large number of reinterpretations, and plain spelling errors too.
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vocalic sounds
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My discovery of all this prompted by Janhunen's suggestion that intervocalic *k followed by *i would yield *x has forced me to reconsider much of my earlier work on Indo-Uralic.
Laryngeal abuse - Phonemes caught in the reconstructive crossfire
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the vocalic ablaut
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In the first experiment, words were presented with pointing, that is, vowel diacritics carrying the full vocalic information in the word; and without pointing, i.e., with partial and ambiguous vowel marking by letters.
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vocalic segments
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One Cantonese and two Mandarin ESL learners produced r/l sounds in minimally contrastive English words in simple and complex onset, coda, and intervocalic positions.
PodCastle » PC036: Ancestor Money
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What I mean by "abuse" is when people, unsatisfied with a protolanguage proven to contain seemingly exotic laryngeals with accompanying vocalic effects, decide to add laryngeals to every stem to account for all long vowels, whether it can be justified or not, and end up succeeding only in muddling the whole grammatical system in the process, obscuring the very thing they attempt to clarify.
Laryngeal overdose in the Indo-European second person
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This involves features such as phonemic vowel length distinctions, consistently hard C, semi-vocalic V, diphtongal AE, aspirated (as opposed to fricative) PH, and so on.
WN.com - Articles related to Children's poetry inspires Natalie Merchant's return
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The traditional account was that loss of postvocalic /r/ in England was a 17th and 18th century phenomenon.
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Scores for only two of the eight variables of the study are given here: refers to the absence of intervocalic th in words such as mother, and refers to the frequency of a low vowel in words such as peck, which then merges with pack.
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The voicing of intervocalic S is a different problem.
Spanish sportsmen | Linguism
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The repetition of the word century, instead of evoking diachrony, only further betrays the precarious instantaneity of the utterance, its vocalic ephemerality.
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One is the Semitic root-and-pattern structure, which combines root radicals (usually consonants, marked by Cs) with a mainly vocalic pattern to produce a word.
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Compared to Tennyson, her inestimably more modest but equally self-elemented textual incrementation of historical destiny at the close of Middlemarch begins in the imagination of other secular ordeals presenting (and notice the vocalic escalation) a
Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
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These may have final postvocalic /r/ and a medial /r/ as trill or tap.
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Why don't non-Narten stems outnumber Narten ones which have marked vocalic length?
Where do Narten presents come from?
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Here we have a postvocalic /b/ that is not lenited.
Languagehat.com: FRICATIVES.
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The syllable that Ben has spelled ‘er’ would be pronounced as an r-colored vowel - a rhotic schwa - which is essentially just a vocalic form of the syllable-final [r] in ‘care’.
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Eroticized ritual is expressed in Pound's unique vocalic patterns: in the third line above, for example, the final word ‘clóths’ echoes and encapsulates the heavily stressed o and i of the opening ‘Só thín.’
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In any case the compound seems to be later than OE in which all intervocalic or spirants were voiced.
Languagehat.com: ELVER AND ALBUM.
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Like many features investigated by sociolinguists, the pronunciation of postvocalic /r/ shows a geographically as well as socially significant distribution.
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It seemed to be entirely devoid of postvocalic /r/, but he didn't have any other features of r-less dialects.
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Most strikingly, 'postvocalic' '' 'r' '', that is to say '' 'r' '' after a vowel and in the same syllable, is silent in British English
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
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The repetition of the word century, instead of evoking diachrony, only further betrays the precarious instantaneity of the utterance, its vocalic ephemerality.
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South Indians tend to geminate voiceless intervocalic obstruents, as in ‘Americ-ca’.
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Latin does not seem to exhibit or inherit a rule where unvoiced stops become voiced stops intervocalically.
Something that bugs me about Indo-European's higher decads
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In a justifiable move for consistency and accuracy, consonantal and vocalic forms of i and u are not distinguished (Lewis and Short distinguished i from j, u from v), except for use of V for capital u, with capitalized entries interfiled (Vaticanus between vatia and vaticinatio).
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 1
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This of course applies only to the ‘pre-vocalic’ R which is normally realized as a ‘frictionless continuant’ by such speakers.
The Oxford BBC Guide to Pronunciation | Linguism | Language Blog
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Clever, however only I-QA-*118 (HT44) ~ QA-*118 (KH 10) and I-DA-MA-TE (AR Zf1) ~ DA-MA-TE (KY Za 2) are available as evidence for this vocalic utterance, only significant if we assume that the two items of each pair have identical meaning.
Archive 2010-02-01
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Most strikingly, 'postvocalic' '' 'r' '', that is to say '' 'r' '' after a vowel and in the same syllable, is silent in British English and marks at ense vowel, e.g. '' 'càrd' '' versus '' 'cád' '',
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
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the Gaelic language being uncommonly vocalic
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Consonant cluster reduction and intervocalic /t/ voicing, however, are better indicators of speech patterns, for they are far less likely than negative contraction to be regulated by a style policy.
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With the exception of the Southern states, eastern New England, and New York City, pronunciation is rhotic, postvocalic /r/ being pronounced in such words as part, four, motor.
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This threw me off for a bit, however there is no way to explain the unmotivated change of intervocalic z to ś or vice versa.
The Etruscan word 'tezan'
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In the first experiment, words were presented with pointing, that is, vowel diacritics carrying the full vocalic information in the word; and without pointing, i.e., with partial and ambiguous vowel marking by letters.
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Sounds like proper Ringlish if you'll excuse an exaggerated intervocalic rhotacism.
Languagehat.com: UNCLEFTISH BEHOLDING.
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There's no rule for how to pronounce/write one of the function words when it appears phrase-finally - but all signs point to the prevocalic form being the special case and the preconsonantal form being the default case.
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Obviously it can't be everything, so only intervocalic consonants before an elided final vowel?
Szemerenyi's Law and Mid IE
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New Englanders drop their post-vocalic r's
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Now, the commander's name was Haviland, and Jenks's spelling Haverland tells me that his dialect was non-rhotic did not pronounce postvocalic r.
Languagehat.com: HAVERLAND.