What does «intervocálico» mean in Spanish?
- It is applied to the consonant between two vowels.
Examples of use in Spanish: "en posición intervocálica".
"algunas consonantes intervocálicas tienden a ser omitidas en la expresión oral".
"Hoy nos preguntamos, entre otras cosas: ¿por qué el intervocálico latino /s/ casi siempre sufrió el metaplasma que llamamos rotacismo? Fios floris, y no flosis".
- 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 altogether. Some languages have fully active intervocalic word weakening processes, both internally and in connected speech: for example, Spanish /d/ regularly pronounced [ð] in both [ˈtoðo] "todo" and [laˈðuna] "la duna", but pronounced [ˈduna] if the word is said alone). An example also occurs in English called "intervocalic flapping," a process (especially in American English and Australian English) that impressionistically turns t into d, making (for example) "metal" and "batter" sound like "medal" and "badder," respectively. (More precisely, both /t/ and /d/ are pronounced with like [ɾ].) In North American English the weakening is variable across word boundaries, so that the /t/ of "see you tomorrow" can be pronounced with like [ɾ] or [tʰ].