Phonetics and Phonology (ENG)
VU Lesson-22 CONSONANTAL GESTURES-II At the end of this section, the students will be able to • EXPLAIN and DISTINGUISH among various types of articulatory gestures used during the production of English consonants.
Topic-110: Trills, Taps and Flaps In approximants, trills, taps and flaps are also commonly found with different articulatory gestures in the world languages. These languages vary not only in terms of the nature of the sounds (such as making it a usual r approximant or unusual rhotic approximate [
ɹ] found in American English but they also vary in terms of the length of the sound (some
making it a short trill, other along one. The following table covers various types of these approximant sounds found in the world languages Voiced alveolar trill
r Spanish Voiced alveolar tap ɾ Spanish Voiced retroflex flap
ɽ Hausa
Voiced alveolar approximant ɹ English Voiced alveolar fricative trill
ɻ
Czech Voiced uvular trill ʀ French Voiced uvular fricative or
ʁ Parisian French approximant
Voiced bilabial trill ʙ
Kele Voiced labiodental flap
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Margi
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