vocalic
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Footnote 18: These may be also defined as free unvoiced breath with varying vocalic timbres.
From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir
So many unrelated functions were ultimately served by the vocalic change that we cannot believe that it was motivated by any one of them.
From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir
The relations of grammar are thus expressed for the most part by changes of vocalic sound, just as in English the plural of "man" is denoted by a change in the vowel.
From Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
Consonantal change as a functional process is probably far less common than vocalic modifications, but it is not exactly rare.
From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir
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
