Voiced dental and alveolar taps and flaps

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title: Voiced dental and alveolar taps and flaps
text: The voiced alveolar tap or flap is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents a dental, alveolar, or postalveolar tap or flap is ⟩. The terms tap and flap are often used interchangeably. Peter Ladefoged proposed the distinction that a tap strikes its point of contact directly, as a very brief stop, and a flap strikes the point of contact tangentially: "Flaps are most typically made by retracting the tongue tip beh
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description: Consonantal sounds represented by ⟨ɾ⟩ in IPA
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiced_dental_and_alveolar_taps_and_flaps
date created: 2004-03-13T23:50:38Z
date modified: 2024-09-05T15:34:17Z
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