Intervocalic and word-medial allophone of / ʈ/. See Portuguese phonologyĪpical postalveolar possible realization of /r/. See Norwegian phonologyĪpical postalveolar postvocalic allophone of /ɖ, ɖʱ/. In Urban East Norwegian it often alternates with the alveolar, save for a small number of words. See Nepali phonologyĪllophone of /l/ and /r/. See Japanese phonologyĪpical postalveolar postvocalic allophone of /ɖ, ɖʱ/. See Hindustani phonologyĪpical postalveolar, may be alveolar instead. Īpical postalveolar contrasts unaspirated and aspirated forms. It can be a postalveolar trill or simply instead. Allophone of /l/, medially between vowels within the morpheme, and finally in the morpheme before a following vowel in the same word. Realization of /r/ varies considerably among dialects. See Bengali phonologyĪ rare word-initial variant of /r/. The airstream mechanism is pulmonic, which means it is articulated by pushing air solely with the lungs and diaphragm, as in most sounds.Īpical postalveolar.It is a central consonant, which means it is produced by directing the airstream along the center of the tongue, rather than to the sides.It is an oral consonant, which means air is allowed to escape through the mouth only.Its phonation is voiced, which means the vocal cords vibrate during the articulation.That is, besides the prototypical subapical articulation, the tongue contact can be apical (pointed) or laminal (flat). Its place of articulation is retroflex, which prototypically means it is articulated subapical (with the tip of the tongue curled up), but more generally, it means that it is postalveolar without being palatalized.Its manner of articulation is tap or flap, which means it is produced with a single contraction of the muscles so that one articulator (usually the tongue) is thrown against another.

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