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vocalic

/voh-kal-ik/US // voʊˈkæl ɪk //UK // (vəʊˈkælɪk) //

发声,发声的,发声器官,发声类

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, relating to, or resembling a vowel.
    • : consisting of, characterized by, or containing vowels.

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Examples

  • A subsidiary but by no means unimportant grammatical process is that of internal vocalic or consonantal change.

  • In Hebrew, as we have seen, vocalic change is of even greater significance than in English.

  • In another Indian language, Yokuts, vocalic modifications affect both noun and verb forms.

  • Consonantal change as a functional process is probably far less common than vocalic modifications, but it is not exactly rare.

  • There is no trace of such vocalic mutation (“umlaut”) in Gothic, our most archaic Germanic language.