Re: THEORY: Vibrant/tremulant?

>> 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
My uvula starts to flap spontaneously before my tongue tip does, but yeah, I
think I kno what you're getting at. My intuition (just that - a hunch) would be
that "vibrant" would still be an acceptable term, "tremulant" not; and you
could perhaps transcribe this as a loered trill: [r_o].

John Vertical