alveolar consonant

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Noun

alveolar consonant - a consonant articulated with the tip of the tongue near the gum ridge

alveolar, dental, dental consonant

consonant - a speech sound that is not a vowel

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[[C.sub.1][+ALVEOLAR,-NASAL]].sub.[mu]] [C.sub.2][+ALVEOLAR,-NASAL] [right arrow] [C:.sub.1] - long consonants are found at the morpheme boundary between a consonant-final stem ending in an oral alveolar consonant and a suffix or enclitic also beginning with an oral alveolar consonant.

Phonology of Ganza (Gwami Nana)

They have cognates in PPD with ka- not followed by a retroflex or alveolar consonant. This presumably reflects PZ *qa-.

Brahui and the Zagrosian hypothesis

As we have seen, D /[??]/ is realized as a uvular or an alveolar consonant, but trill, fricative and approximant allophones are used in both environments by different speakers and in different regions.

Linguistic lingo and lyric diction III--pronunciation contrasts

Velar plosives will palatalize before front vowels, while alveolar consonants will palatalize before back vowels.