Later on, in the fifteenth century, vocalic alliteration in general falls into disuse more and more. |
Consonantal change as a functional process is probably far less common than vocalic modifications, but it is not exactly rare. |
The peculiar rhythm of the original, with the alliterations and vocalic concords, give it remarkable smoothness and force. |
The repetition of the word century, instead of evoking diachrony, only further betrays the precarious instantaneity of the utterance, its vocalic ephemerality. |
It is better to take a as a vocalic abstract prefix and to consider kad as the root. |
A transcript was used rather than an audiotaped conversation so as to provide no paralinguistic or vocalic cues regarding the nature of the ambiguous evaluative comments. |