The voicing of intervocalic S is a different problem. From Wordnik.com. [Spanish sportsmen | Linguism] Reference
I've often heard it pronounced "mani-GOTT," with dialectal intervocalic voicing. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: PROSHOOT.] Reference
Sounds like proper Ringlish if you'll excuse an exaggerated intervocalic rhotacism. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: UNCLEFTISH BEHOLDING.] Reference
Obviously it can't be everything, so only intervocalic consonants before an elided final vowel?. From Wordnik.com. [Szemerenyi's Law and Mid IE] Reference
In any case the compound seems to be later than OE in which all intervocalic or spirants were voiced. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: ELVER AND ALBUM.] Reference
Thus the final two syllables still have the same duration as before and vocalic length merely transfers to the previous intervocalic consonant. From Wordnik.com. [A few more words on my new Gemination rule for Pre-IE] Reference
One Cantonese and two Mandarin ESL learners produced r/l sounds in minimally contrastive English words in simple and complex onset, coda, and intervocalic positions. From Wordnik.com. [PodCastle » PC036: Ancestor Money] Reference
In Latin the intervocalic s was voiceless (English s of "case"); in. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
This non-discrimination of intervocalic (to use a special term) t and d is a famous shibboleth of American English. From Wordnik.com. [OUPblog] Reference
Brill, European flatfish, appears in 1481 as a transliteration of the Middle Cornish brŷ thel (the intervocalic "th" is silent), from brŷ th ` speckled. '. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 2] Reference
After Lat. i the v disappeared (rivus-um, Span. rio), but in most other cases it remained as a bilabial spirant euqal in balue to originally intervocalic b (novus-um, Span. nuevo). From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
Another characteristic of early Portuguese was the loss of intervocalic l and n, sometimes followed by the merger of the two surrounding vowels, or by the insertion of an epenthetic vowel between them: cf. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
While the modern Spanish vowels have preserved much of the sonority of their Latin originals, the consonants have greatly weakened in the force and precision of their utterance; even refined and careful speakers often fail now to pronounce the intervocalic d of the past participial ending in amado, etc., which for them become amao (or amau), etc. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
In the medial (intervocalic) position double p, t, and c (before a. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
(and already V.L.) developed new sibilant sounds out of intervocalic. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
Granted, intervocalic zh is usually spelled "s" or "g", not "j", but not-being-certain-it's-zh doesn't equate to being-certain-it's-dzh. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: BEIZHING.] Reference
In English, an intervocalic j/dzh sound is usually spelled "dj" (as in "adjunct") or "dg" (as in "fudgy"); so it's really not surprising that English-speakers wouldn't know how to pronounce "eiji" in a supposed English transliteration. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: BEIZHING.] Reference
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