postvocalic consonant

{{Short description|Consonant that occurs after a vowel}}

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In phonetics and phonology, a postvocalic consonant is a consonant that occurs after a vowel.{{cite book |last1=Carr |first1=Philip |title=A glossary of phonology |date=2008 |publisher=Edinburgh university press |isbn=978-0-7486-2404-1}}{{Rp|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.