Re: OT: Phonetics (IPA)
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, July 13, 2003, 3:14 |
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Roger Mills wrote:
> There is a very good reason for that. Dentals and alveolars, usually (and I
> suspect by definition in IPA) are produced with a relatively wide area of
> the front of the tongue in contact with the teeth/alveolum. (Technically,
> they are _laminar_.) The body of the tongue is relatively flat.
>
> In retroflexion, the tip of the tongue is curled back, so that only the tip,
> or at least a relatively smaller area than in a dental/alv. articulation,
> contacts the roof of the mouth anywhere from the alveolum to a bit further
> back (technically, _apical_) .
Hmm ... very good point. Apical/Laminal is *much* more distinctive than
dental/alveolar/retroflex. Perhaps Nikhil is using an apico-alveolar,
which *would* make it sound like a retroflex. I use a lamino-alveolar
which thus sounds more like lamino-dental.
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