Intervocalic consonant
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Intervocalic consonant
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In phonetics and phonology, an intervocalic consonant is a consonant that occurs between two vowels. Intervocalic consonants are often associated with lenition, a phonetic process that causes consonants to weaken and eventually disappear entirely. An example of such a change in English is intervocalic alveolar flapping, a process that, impressionistically speaking, replaces /t/ with /d/. For example, "metal" is pronounced ; "batter" sounds like. In North American English, the weakening is variab
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Consonant that occurs between two vowels
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intervocalic_consonant
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2024-02-04T18:09:04Z
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