Vibrants (was: New conlang)

>The term percussive is now reserved for a small set of phones, mostly found
>in disordered speech, though the sublingual percussive occurs in some
>productions of the alveolar click (...)
>A *very* old term that I thought nicely covered taps, flaps & trills was
>'vibrant', but it doesn't seem to be used much in the literature now.
>Bfowol
Thanks for the answers - I have come across the term "vibrant" already a few
times, but I wasn't sure if it included all 3 of trills, taps & flaps.
I have no idea why is there need to differentiate the terms "tap" and
"percussive" ... are you insinuating that the latter term was earlier used
more widely??

I think I'll also note that it seems to me that some trills are inherently
"flapped" (/B\/) and others "tapped" (/r R\/).

John Vertical

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