Talk:Postvocalic consonant

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@Tomatoswoop claims that this page's contents should be actually also merged into the redirect target. Problem is, however, that as far as I can tell, there is no actual content here whatsoever. This is basically a WP:DICDEF: it defines a postvocalic consonant as a coda consonant (one that occurs after a vowel but not before another vowel; VC(C/#) but not VCV), just without any useful links to existing content. As far as I can tell the merger with that article section would be appropriate. (Coda (linguistics) as a separate article would probably be eventually warranted, but one step at a time.) --Trɔpʏliʊm • blah 15:04, 12 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Contrary to the way the article is currently written, "postvocalic" as far as I know only means "following a vowel" and is not necessarily mutually exclusive with intervocalic. A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics (6th ed., 2008) and A Dictionary of Phonetics and Phonology (1996) define it simply as "a term describing a sound which follows a vowel" and as "Occurring immediately after a vowel", respectively.

A coda consonant is an entirely different concept from a postvocalic consonant because a postconsonantal consonant in a consonant cluster or after a syllabic consonant can also be a coda consonant.

IMO, the best option is to make the article a Wiktionary redirect to postvocalic (or delete the page altogether). Nardog (talk) 21:53, 12 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I remember creating this article with the exact focus of "postvocalic" being mutually exclusive with "intervocalic" because it was being used that way in articles I was reading at the time. Obviously, this is typically how "postvocalic R" is used, for example, in discussions of rhoticity in English. Wolfdog (talk) 00:32, 13 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

All incoming links seem to treat issues along the lines of "postvocalic R" in English. Although this article words things as if to suggest that "postvocalic" could be distinguished from "coda" in clusters (so that VCC is coda but not postvocalic), "postvocalic R" is still the same thing as coda R, since in English /r/ can never occur as the second component of a consonant cluster.

Some of the more specialized links could be maybe better pointed as Rhoticity in English. --Trɔpʏliʊm • blah 14:52, 19 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]