postalveolar

Speech parts

1. postalveolar - Noun

2. postalveolar - Adjective

Meaning

postalveolar (not comparable)

(phonetics) Articulated with the tongue near or touching the back of the alveolar ridge.

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postalveolar (plural postalveolars)

(phonetics) Any sound articulated with the tongue near or touching the back of the alveolar ridge, such as English sh in the word shoe.

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Also flaps are used as basic rhotics in Japanese and Korean languages, although it is a lateral apical postalveolar flap. Source: Internet

Grammar Similarly, Slavic languages have extensive morphophonemic alternations in their derivational and inflectional morphology, including between velar and postalveolar consonants, front and back vowels, and between a vowel and no vowel. Source: Internet

The original outcomes of palatalization must have continued to be phonetically palatalized even after they had developed into alveolar postalveolar /etc. consonants. Source: Internet

These and the postalveolar sounds are typical of diminutives, which are used frequently in child language and motherese (mainly to show affection rather than size). Source: Internet

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