1. occurring between two vowel sounds
Usage: linguistics; phonetics

Examples

• The intervocalic consonant in ‘water’ is often pronounced as a flap in American English.
• Spanish speakers may drop intervocalic ‘d’ sounds in casual speech.
• The linguist studied intervocalic sound changes across different dialects.
• In many languages, intervocalic consonants undergo weakening processes.
• The intervocalic ‘t’ in ‘butter’ sounds different from the initial ‘t’ in ‘top’.
• Researchers analyzed intervocalic deletion patterns in the recorded conversations.