EGAVE

prevocalic

About 0.02 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Immediately preceding a vowel or vowel sound
    Examples that may be used to teach those with articulatory and phonological impairments the prevocalic /r/ sound are: run, race, rain, tree, and spray.

Similar words

voicing praevocalic prevocal postvocalic preconsonantal antevocalic preinitial prephonatory prefricative prephonetic

Often followed by

position and consonant voicing consonants glide glides contexts stops r

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