adjective
- occurring or positioned after a vowel sound
Usage: linguistics; phonetics
Examples
- In English, the 'r' in 'car' is a postvocalic consonant.
- Postvocalic consonants often undergo different phonological processes than prevocalic ones.
- The final 't' in 'cat' is a postvocalic stop.
- Linguists study how postvocalic sounds affect vowel quality.
- In some dialects, postvocalic 'r' is pronounced differently or dropped entirely.