This section considers intervocalic s-voicing, raddoppiamento sintattico, vowel deletion, phrase-final lengthening, and phrasal stress placement. |
Many intervocalic clusters are reduced, becoming either a geminate consonant or a simple consonant with compensatory lengthening of the previous vowel. |
In compounds like Sugihara there is, and has been, variation as to what counts as intervocalic position. |
In all Finnic languages featuring gradation, geminate stops and single stops that are intervocalic or follow a voiced consonant undergo gradation. |
They believe that stressed vowels in open syllables remained phonetically short, and a consonant grapheme in intervocalic position usually represents a single consonant. |