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There are also special quantitative processes, like vocalic lengthening or shortening and consonantal doubling, but these may be looked upon as particular sub-types of the process of internal modification.
From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir
It has all the vocalic syllables and endings it needs for softness, and incloses them mostly in consonants for condensation, vigor, and emphasis.
From Essays Æsthetical by George H. (George Henry) Calvert
In Goidelic, we find two mutations, the vocalic and the nasal.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various
Nouns whose stems originally ended in a vowel belong to the vocalic or so-called strong declension.
From A Middle High German Primer Third Edition by Joseph Wright
Esperanto has wisely adopted full, vocalic, syllabic endings for words.
From International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar by Walter John Clark
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