word-medial

All of these consonants may occur in word-medial and -final position.

Word-medial simple consonants are geminated after a short initial syllable.

It occurs in both word-initial and word-medial positions.

Costa (2003) notes that "this is the case in all bisyllabic words without a word-medial preaspirate."

In word-medial position, the syllable boundary falls before the final consonant in a sequence.

Voiceless stops occur in word-initial, word-medial, and word-final position.

In unstressed, word-medial or -final syllables, all vowels are dropped when following a nasal and preceding a plosive.

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Word-medial consonant mutation is found in several Uralic languages, where it goes by the traditional name of consonant gradation.

The term "consonant gradation" has been used in Uralic linguistics to refer to almost any possible process of word-medial alternation involving lenition or fortition.

The nasals occur in word-initial, word-medial and word-final positions, with the exception of /ɲ/, which does not occur word-finally.

Polish can have word-initial and word-medial clusters of up to four consonants, whereas word-final clusters can have up to five consonants.

Consonants are doubled in word-medial and word-final positions before E. Final /k/ often written as CK as in English.

The primary environment for weak-syllable deletion in polysyllabic words is word-initial, as deleting word-final or word-medial syllables would interfere with the penultimate stress pattern heard in ambient language.

Consonants can also cluster in particular arrangements up to CCCCC in the word-medial position; word-initial or word-final clusters are limited to CCC.

Since the Nara period, /h/ began to be pronounced as [w] in word-medial position; by the beginning of the 11th century, this phenomenon, called the "Ha-line shift", had become more widespread.

In word-medial and word-final syllables, formerly long vowels are now only 127% as long as short vowels in initial syllables, but they are still distinct from initial-syllable short vowels.

Word-Medial High-Raising According to Leman, "some verbal prefixes and preverbs go through the process of Word-Medial High-Raising."

This only affects verb roots, as they are the only part of speech that takes prefixes and are therefore the only possible part of speech for which word-initial and word-medial environmental effects can be observed.

This, however, can be deceptive in the written languages, since the Galician b lenites to a soft sound like /v/ in word-medial or word-final position, while the Irish letter b is not lenited in such positions.

Supplementing these are 2 consonants that are internal developments in specific word-medial contexts, and 7 consonants originally found in loan words, whose expression is dependent on factors such as status (class, education, etc.) and cultural register (Modern Standard Hindi vs Urdu).