Re: THEORY: Vibrant/tremulant?

Quoting Kelly Drinkwater <mizunomi@...>:

> How does that even work? Does the tongue vibrate really rapidly, under
> its own power? If so, sir, I congratulate you on having an
> extraordinarily dextrous tongue.
The tongue tip "flaps in the wind", so to speak. No doubt, some hellishly
complex turbulent flow is going on.

                                                  Andreas


> -Alioth
>
> On 7/15/07, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:
> > Would either of these be a correct or acceptable English term for a
> continuant
> > where the tongue tip vibrates, but unlike in  [r], does not strike the
> mouth
> > roof during the upstroke? Also, how should one indicate it in phonetic
> > transcription if one wanted to distinguish it from static apical
> approximants
> > and fricatives?
> >
> >                                                Andreas
> >
>

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