prevocalicadj.

1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Prevocalic, occurring immediately before a vowel;—said of a consonant.

1934 M. K. Pope From Lat. to Mod. French ii. xvii. 223 In educated speech throughout the sixteenth century final consonants, whether single or supported, were maintained when in prae-vocalic position in the phrase.

1949 Language 25 400 It is..improbable that l [in Umbrian] was treated differently before i and prevocalic ĭ.

1976 Archivum Linguisticum 7 164 Both to postulate an analogical extension of the pre-vocalic forms, since in the majority of the cases they do not even exist, and to assume lost vowels, is to beg the question.

1990 Word 41 72 For any consonant we may speak of three positions of occurrence with respect to vowels: intervocalic, prevocalic, and postvocalic.

1943 A. L. Kroeber Classif. Yuman Langs. in Univ. Calif. Publ. Linguistics 1 30 The stops p, t, k are universal and stable. In the Arizona dialects they are less aspirated, prevocalically, than in other languages and have often been written b, d, g.

1964 R. H. Robins Gen. Linguistics 101 In Scots English, /r/ occurs both prevocalically and postvocalically.

2002 G. T. Stump Inflectional Morphol. vi. 196 The metageneralizations in (21) correctly determine which of these is the Strong stem and, in the Weak cases, which is to be used prevocalically and which elsewhere.