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Retroflex stop

In phonetics and phonology, a retroflex stop is a type of consonantal sound, made with the tongue curled back and in contact with area behind the alveolar ridge or with the hard palate (hence retroflex), held tightly enough to block the passage of air (hence a stop consonant). The point of contact is commonly either the tongue tip or tongue blade (the…

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Retroflex stop

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Avg. degree1.93
Density0.074074
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Retroflex stop → April, Evidence, Hamann, How, ISBN, January, Linguistics, LOT, PDF, Phonology, Retrieved, Retroflexes, Silke, The Phonetics, ZAS Papers
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Retroflex stop → type of consonantal sound

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retroflex stops stop tongue alveolar contact palate languages common english sound made curled back behind hard enough consonant particularly southern

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Retroflex stopis atype of consonantal sound0.90text
Retroflex stoprelated to ReferencesHamann0.60section
Retroflex stoprelated to ReferencesSilke0.60section
Retroflex stoprelated to ReferencesJanuary0.60section
Retroflex stoprelated to ReferencesHow0.60section
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Retroflex stoprelated to ReferencesZAS Papers0.60section
Retroflex stoprelated to ReferencesLinguistics0.60section
Retroflex stoprelated to ReferencesRetrieved0.60section
Retroflex stoprelated to ReferencesApril0.60section
Retroflex stoprelated to ReferencesThe Phonetics0.60section
Retroflex stoprelated to ReferencesPhonology0.60section

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