In linguistics, describing a phonetic position or context that occurs before a vowel sound.
From Latin 'ante' (before) + 'vocalis' (relating to voice/vowels, from 'vox' meaning voice). This linguistic term combines the spatial prefix with the vowel root.
Linguists use 'antevocalic' to describe how certain consonants behave differently depending on whether a vowel follows—for example, the 'r' sound in English works differently in antevocalic positions, which is why some accents drop it before vowels.
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