vocalic
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A subsidiary but by no means unimportant grammatical process is that of internal vocalic or consonantal change.
From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir
All these factors were equally true of the German vocalic shift.
From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir
Esperanto has wisely adopted full, vocalic, syllabic endings for words.
From International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar by Walter John Clark
There are also special quantitative processes, like vocalic lengthening or shortening and consonantal doubling, but these may be looked upon as particular sub-types of the process of internal modification.
From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir
The old ‘Minor Declensions’ had begun to pass over into the vocalic, especially into the i- and a-, declensions in the oldest OHG.
From A Middle High German Primer Third Edition by Joseph Wright
