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prevocalic

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pre·vo·cal·ic  (prv-klk)
adj.
1. Preceding a vowel.
2. Of or relating to a form of a linguistic element, such as a suffix, prefix, or word, that occurs only before a vowel.
prevocalic [ˌpriːvəʊˈkælɪk]
adj
(Linguistics / Grammar) (of a consonant) coming immediately before a vowel
prevocalically  adv
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FRAN COLMAN Methoni, Greece (1) In the first volume of Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, the editor contributed a piece on prevocalic consonant clusters in the history of English, including, of course, Old English.
Names, derivational morphology, and Old English gender by Colman, Fran / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
Livonian prosody is unique among the Uralic languages in contrasting at the same time (a) short and long monophthongs, diphthongs, and triphthongs, (b) prevocalic single and geminate consonants and word-final short and long consonants, and (c) lexical tones (at least the plain tone and the broken tone or stod) in stressed stem-initial syllables and in using (d) different coda weight to multiply the number of possible sound patterns.
Survey of previous research on Livonian prosody/[TEXT NOT ... by Viitso, Tiit-Rein / Linguistica Uralica
] ~ 3], it is imaginable that the merger of the two rhotics yielded different results in different dialects, with West Saxon generally favouring the posterior quality (as argued by Tristram 1995) and Anglian retaining the anterior articulation at least in prevocalic positions.
A Shibboleth upon their tongues: early English /r/ revisited by Gasiorowski, Piotr / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
 
 
 
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