Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Designating a consonant or consonantal sound directly following a vowel.
- adjective Of, relating to, or being a form of a linguistic element, such as a suffix or word, that occurs only after vowels.
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- adjective
Following oroccurring after avowel .
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Examples
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Most strikingly, 'postvocalic' '' 'r' '', that is to say '' 'r' '' after a vowel and in the same syllable, is silent in British English
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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Most strikingly, 'postvocalic' '' 'r' '', that is to say '' 'r' '' after a vowel and in the same syllable, is silent in British English and marks at ense vowel, e.g. '' 'càrd' '' versus '' 'cád' '',
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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Now, the commander's name was Haviland, and Jenks's spelling Haverland tells me that his dialect was non-rhotic did not pronounce postvocalic r.
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Here we have a postvocalic /b/ that is not lenited.
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