adjective
- occurring or positioned immediately before a vowel sound
Usage: linguistics; phonetics
Examples
- In English, the /r/ sound in 'run' is prevocalic because it comes before the vowel /ʌ/.
- Prevocalic consonants often have different phonetic properties than those in other positions.
- The linguist analyzed prevocalic stops across multiple languages.
- In Spanish, prevocalic /d/ is pronounced as a stop, not a fricative.
- The study examined how prevocalic nasals affect vowel quality.