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In phonetics and phonology, a postvocalic consonant is a consonant that occurs after a vowel.[1]: 133  Examples include the n in stand or the n in sun. Contrarily, if a consonant occurs between two vowels, it is called intervocalic.

A specially behaving postvocalic consonant in the English language is the postvocalic "r," often known as the English rhotic consonant, whose behavior alone divides the language into rhotic vs. non-rhotic accents.

References

  1. ^ Carr, Philip (2008). A glossary of phonology. Edinburgh university press. ISBN 978-0-7486-2404-1.
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