An apical consonant is a phone (speech sound) produced by obstructing the air passage with the tip of the tongue (apex) in conjunction with upper articulators...

fricatives. Some languages in South Asia contrast apical and laminal stops. In Hindustani, the apical stops are normally called "retroflex" but are really...

alveolo-palatal, and apical retroflex) just behind that, the subapical retroflex consonants curled back against the hard palate, and linguolabial consonants with the...

which are called "retroflex". Most so-called retroflex consonants are more properly called apical. True subapical retroflexes are found in the Dravidian...

manner as well. Palatal consonants can be distinguished from apical palatalized consonants and consonant clusters of a consonant and the palatal approximant...

(apical) or the tongue blade (laminal). When apical, they have been called apico-domal consonants. Retroflex consonants, like other coronal consonants...

the tongue tip to make apical or subapical contact renders palatalization more difficult so domed (palato-alveolar) consonants are not attested with subapical...

sockets) of the upper teeth. Alveolar consonants may be articulated with the tip of the tongue (the apical consonants), as in English, or with the flat of...

transcribed ⟨ʂ ʐ⟩. Apical postalveolar and subapical palatal sibilants do not contrast in any language, but if necessary, apical postalveolars can be...

corresponding alveolar consonant, or with the apical diacritic, U+033A ◌̺ COMBINING INVERTED BRIDGE BELOW, on the corresponding bilabial consonant. Linguolabials...

A syllabic consonant or vocalic consonant is a consonant that forms the nucleus of a syllable on its own, like the m, n and l in some pronunciations of...

chemistry Apical (dentistry), direction towards the root tip of a tooth Apical consonant, a consonant produced with the tip of the tongue Apical dendrite...

produce a laminal articulation of otherwise apical consonants such as /t/ and /s/. Phonetically palatalized consonants may vary in their exact realization. Some...

suffricates /s͡t/ and /ʃ͡t/ according to some analyses. Apical consonant Hush consonant Laminal consonant Index of phonetics articles John Laver created the...

dental sibilant [z̪] voiced dental sibilant [s̺] voiceless apical sibilant [z̺] voiced apical sibilant [s̟] voiceless predorsal sibilant (laminal, with...

muscles and abdominal muscles, as in most sounds. Tongue shape Apical consonant Laminal consonant Index of phonetics articles Puppel, Nawrocka-Fisiak & Krassowska...

used for the corresponding alveolar consonant). A distinction can be made between laminal, apical, and sub-apical articulations. Only one language, Toda...

apical in articulation.[citation needed] To native speakers, the English alveolar /t/ and /d/ sound more like the corresponding retroflex consonants of...

labial–alveolar (i.e. labial–denti-alveolar) and labial–retroflex (i.e. apical to sub-apical labial–postalveolar) places of articulation, as illustrated below...

termed respectively apical and laminal. According to Ladefoged & Maddieson (1996) about half of English speakers use a non-retracted apical articulation. Retracted...

Alveolo-palatal consonant Alveolo-palatal ejective fricative (ɕʼ) Apical consonant Approximant consonant Articulatory phonetics Aspirated consonant (◌ʰ) Auditory...

by German grammar. Its sibboleth was the pronunciation of R as an Apical consonant. Unterland Yiddish is conserved today mainly by the Satmar Hasidim's...

In Australian linguistics, the peripheral consonants are a natural class encompassing consonants articulated at the extremes of the mouth: labials (lip)...

Interdental consonants are produced by placing the tip of the tongue between the upper and lower front teeth. That differs from typical dental consonants, which...

instead of the intended characters. Click consonants, or clicks, are speech sounds that occur as consonants in many languages of Southern Africa and in...

respectively apical and laminal. Its phonation is voiced, which means the vocal cords vibrate during the articulation. It is an oral consonant, which means...

transcription delimiters. In phonetics, rhotic consonants, or "R-like" sounds, are liquid consonants that are traditionally represented orthographically...

respectively apical and laminal. Its phonation is voiceless, which means it is produced without vibrations of the vocal cords. It is an oral consonant, which...

The voiced retroflex plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet...

respectively apical and laminal. Its phonation is voiced, which means the vocal cords vibrate during the articulation. It is an oral consonant, which means...