consonantal
At this stage infants are capable of transmitting contrasts of vocalic quality.
Research on vocalic variation in Scottish English has shown that variation tends to occur according to the age, gender, and socioeconomic class of the speaker.
Features that were observed included pitch changes and vocalic lengthening.

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Linguistics: phonology & phonetics
accommodation
alliterative
alveolar
apheresis
aphesis
assonance
diphthong
homonym
intrusive
labial
labialize
labiodental
postalveolar
postconsonantal
retroflex
retroflexion
rhotic
the International Phonetic Alphabet
unpronounceable
unrepeatable

Examples of vocalic

vocalic
He too had homophone and vocalic-pattern errors that are not characteristic of the reading of individuals with acquired neglect dyslexia.
Well over 90% of all potential off-rhymes are vocalic; they are not considered here.
It should be noted that the production of word-initial non-additional vocalic elements cannot merely be attributed to the child's growing ability to approximate target words.
For the infant in isolation, the sampling included all of her non-distress, non-vegetative, vocalic utterances.
In the case of the various gliding events affecting liquids, we may assume that the vocalic outcome reflects a segment's secondary resonance characteristic.
It is argued, with regard to the perfective form, that past tense is carried neither by the agreement suffix nor by the vocalic melody.
The decisive criterion was the number rather than the (vocalic) nature of the sonority peaks.
The independence of the two objects is confirmed by the fact that elsewhere the same type of vocalic melody can occupy a non-nuclear position.
If filled, the first vocalic element adjacently preceding nouns and verbs was selected for analysis.
Nevertheless, one case in which positing an unpronounced vocalic position in the representation seems reasonable is that of vowel epenthesis or syncope.
This, they argued, explains why it is often asser ted that dark 0 l 0s, and especially syllabic 0 l 0 s, are really vocalic.
In this case, apparently, the structural integrity of vocalic subsystems takes precedence over the need to maintain maximal contrast between neighboring phonemes.
The consonant cluster may also be overlapped by a vocalic gesture associated with a preceding or following vowel segment.
It is unclear how the finding that vocalic context influences misidentification bears on the markedness option, however.
Indeed, many of her innovations are both brilliant and thoroughly convincing: her accounts of cluster alliteration and vocalic alliteration are particularly fine.
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