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
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
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
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
Irish the initial mutations are only regularly denoted in the case of the vocalic mutation of c, p, t, s, f, and the nasal mutation of b, d, g.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various
