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What does vocalic mean?

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Adjective
  1. Used as a vowel, as opposed to consonantal, especially in Latin.
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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.

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