vocalic

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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 Sapir, Edward

In Goidelic, we find two mutations, the vocalic and the nasal.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

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 Sapir, Edward

The vocalic mutation of c, p, t, s, f was denoted by writing ch, ph, th, sh, fh, the first three symbols of which were derived from the Latin alphabet.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

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 Wright, Joseph