1. postalveolar - Noun
2. postalveolar - Adjective
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.
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