Alveolar Tap
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Alveolar Tap
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 behind the alveolar ridge and moving it forward so that it strikes the ridge in passing."[1] That distinction between the alveolar tap and flap can be written in the IPA with tap ⟨?⟩ and flap ⟨?⟩, the 'retroflex' symbol being used for the one that starts with the tongue tip curled back behind the alveolar ridge. The distinction is noticeable in the speech of some American English speakers in distinguishing the words "potty" (tap [?]) and "party" (retroflex ).
For linguists who make the distinction, the coronal flap (as in Spanish pero) is transcribed with ⟨?⟩, and the tap (as in dd in American English ladder) is transcribed with a non-IPA symbol ⟨?⟩ (not to be confused with the IPA symbol ⟨?⟩, which stands for the open back rounded vowel). Otherwise, alveolars and dentals are typically called taps and other articulations flaps. No language contrasts a tap and a flap at the same place of articulation.
The sound is often analyzed and thus interpreted by non-native English-speakers as an 'R-sound' in many foreign languages. In languages for which the segment is present but not phonemic, it is often an allophone of either an alveolar stop (, , or both) or a rhotic consonant (like the alveolar trill or the alveolar approximant).
If the alveolar flap is the only rhotic consonant in the language, it may be transcribed with ⟨r⟩ although that symbol technically represents the trill.
The voiced alveolar tapped fricative reported from some languages is actually a very brief voiced alveolar non-sibilant fricative.
Voiced alveolar tap and flap
| Voiced alveolar tap or flap | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ? | |||
| IPA Number | 124 | ||
| Encoding | |||
| Entity (decimal) | ɾ | ||
| Unicode (hex) | U+027E | ||
| X-SAMPA | 4 | ||
| Braille |   | ||
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| Audio sample | |||
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Features
Features of the voiced alveolar tap or flap:
- Its manner of articulation is tap or flap, which means it is produced with a single contraction of the muscles so that the tongue makes very brief contact.
- Its place of articulation is dental or alveolar, which means it is articulated behind upper front teeth or at the alveolar ridge. It is most often apical, which means that it is pronounced with the tip of the tongue.
- Its phonation is voiced, which means the vocal cords vibrate during the articulation.
- It is an oral consonant, which means air is allowed to escape through the mouth only.
- It is a central consonant, which means it is produced by directing the airstream along the center of the tongue, rather than to the sides.
- The airstream mechanism is pulmonic, which means it is articulated by pushing air solely with the lungs and diaphragm, as in most sounds.
Occurrence
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | Egyptian[2] | [?e?l] | 'leg' | See Egyptian Arabic phonology | |
| Lebanese | [] | 'wages' | |||
| Moroccan | / rma | [?ma] | 'he threw' | ||
| South Iraqi | ? | [a?id] | 'I want' | ||
| Armenian | Eastern[3] | ? | 'minute' | Contrasts with in all positions. | |
| Assyrian | ? rìsha | [?i?a] | 'head' | Contrasts with 'dark' R. | |
| Basque | begiratu | [be'?i?a?tu] | 'look' | Contrasts with . See Basque phonology | |
| Bengali | ? | [aba?] | 'again' | Main realisation of /r/. Corresponds to [r ~ ?] in others and may occur word-medially and finally against [r]. See Bengali phonology | |
| Catalan[4] | truc | ['t?uk] | 'trick' | Contrasts with . See Catalan phonology | |
| Danish[5][6] | nordisk | ['noisk] | 'Nordic' | Possible realization of intervocalic /d/ between phonetic vowels.[5][6] See Danish phonology | |
| English | Cockney[7] | better | ['be] | 'better' | Intervocalic allophone of /t/. In free variation with [? ~ t? ~ t?]. See Flapping |
| Australian[8] | ['be] | Intervocalic allophone of /t/, and also /d/ for some Australians. Used more often in Australia than in New Zealand. See Australian English phonology and Flapping | |||
| New Zealand[9] | ['be] | ||||
| Dublin[10] | Intervocalic allophone of /t/ and /d/, present in many dialects. In Local Dublin it can be [?] instead, unlike New and Mainstream. See English phonology and Flapping | ||||
| North America[11] | |||||
| Ulster | |||||
| West Country | |||||
| Irish | three | [i:] | 'three' | Conservative accents. Corresponds to [? ~ ? ~ ?] in other accents. | |
| Scottish[12] | Most speakers. Others use [? ~ r]. | ||||
| Older Received Pronunciation[13] | Allophone of /?/ | ||||
| Scouse[12] | |||||
| South African[12] | Broad speakers. Can be [? ~ r] instead | ||||
| Esperanto | Esperanto | [espe'?anto] | 'one who hopes' | Usually a flap , but can be a trilled r. See Esperanto phonology | |
| Greek[14] | ? / mirós | [mi'o?s] | 'thigh' | Somewhat retracted. Most common realization of . See Modern Greek phonology | |
| Hindustani | / ?? | [me:?a:] | 'My' | Allophone of /r/ in intervocalic position. See Hindustani phonology. | |
| Kinyarwanda | u Rwanda | [u ?gw?:.nd?] | 'Rwanda' | ||
| Japanese[dubious ] | ? / kokoro | 'heart' | [15] Varies with .[16] See Japanese phonology | ||
| Korean | / yeoreum | [jm] | 'summer' | Allophone of /l/ between vowels or between a vowel and an /h/ | |
| Malay | ?? / ratus | [?ä.tos] | 'hundred' | Common realisation of /r/. May be trill [r] or postalveolar approximant []. See Malay phonology | |
| M?ori | whare | [?a] | 'house' | Sometimes trilled. | |
| Marathi | [?a:?a:] | 'wind' | |||
| Nepali[17] | [t?ä?ä] | 'star' | Intervocalic allophone of /r/. See Nepali phonology | ||
| Norwegian[18] | bare | ['b:.] | 'only' | May be realised as a trill [r], approximant [?] or uvular [?~?] depending on dialect. See Norwegian phonology | |
| Odia | /r?ti | [?äti] | 'night' | ||
| Polish | który | ['kt?u.] | 'which' | Can also sometimes be an approximant, a fricative, and rarely - a trill. See Polish phonology | |
| Portuguese[19] | prato | ['p?atu] | 'dish' | Dental to retroflex allophones, varying by dialect. Contrasts only intervocalically with , with its guttural allophones. See Portuguese phonology | |
| Scottish Gaelic | mòr | [mo:?] | 'big' | Both the lenited and non-initial broad form of r. Often transcribed simply as /r/. The initial unlenited broad form is a trill [r?], while the slender form is [] ([ð] in some dialects). See Scottish Gaelic phonology. | |
| Spanish[20] | caro | 'expensive' | Contrasts with . See Spanish phonology | ||
| Tagalog | biro | ['bi] | 'joke' | See Tagalog phonology | |
| Tamil | ? | [ma?am] | 'tree' | See Tamil phonology | |
| Turkish[21] | ara | ['ä?ä] | 'interval' | Intervocalically; may not make full contact elsewhere.[21] See Turkish phonology | |
| Uzbek[22] | ??/yomg'ir | [m'] | 'rain' | Denti-alveolar.[22] | |
| West Coast Bajau[23] | bara' | [ba.?a?] | 'to tell' | Voiced dental flap in intervocalic position. | |
Alveolar nasal tap and flap
| Alveolar nasal tap/flap | |
|---|---|
| n? | |
| IPA Number | 124 424 |
| Encoding | |
| X-SAMPA | 4~ |
Features
Features of the alveolar nasal tap or flap:
- Its manner of articulation is tap or flap, which means it is produced with a single contraction of the muscles so that the tongue makes very brief contact.
- Its place of articulation is alveolar, which means it is articulated with either the tip or the blade of the tongue at the alveolar ridge, termed respectively apical and laminal.
- Its phonation is voiced, which means the vocal cords vibrate during the articulation.
- It is a nasal consonant, which means air is allowed to escape through the nose, either exclusively (nasal stops) or in addition to through the mouth.
- It is a central consonant, which means it is produced by directing the airstream along the center of the tongue, rather than to the sides.
- The airstream mechanism is pulmonic, which means it is articulated by pushing air solely with the lungs and diaphragm, as in most sounds.
Occurrence
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English[24] | Estuary | twenty | 'twenty' | Allophone of unstressed intervocalic /nt/ for some speakers, especially in rapid or casual speech. See English phonology, North American English regional phonology and tapping | |
| North American[25] | |||||
| Guarani[26] | porã | [põ'ã] | 'good' | Nasalized allophone of /?/ as a result of nasal harmony. See Guarani language § Nasal harmony | |
See also
Notes
- ^ Valentin-Marquez (2015)
- ^ Watson (2002:16)
- ^ Dum-Tragut (2009:19)
- ^ Carbonell & Llisterri (1992:53)
- ^ a b Grønnum (2005:157)
- ^ a b Basbøll (2005:126)
- ^ Wells (1982:324-325)
- ^ Cox & Palethorpe (2007:343)
- ^ Trudgill & Hannah (2002:24)
- ^ "Glossary". Retrieved .
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Ogden (2009:114)
- ^ a b c Ogden (2009:92)
- ^ Wise (1957:?)
- ^ Arvaniti (2007:15-18)
- ^ Labrune (2012), p. 92.
- ^ Akamatsu (1997), p. 106.
- ^ Khatiwada, Rajesh (December 2009). "Nepali". Journal of the International Phonetic Association. 39 (3): 373-380. doi:10.1017/S0025100309990181. ISSN 1475-3502.
- ^ Kristoffersen, Gjert (2015). "En innføring i norsk fonologi" [An introduction to Norwegian phonology] (PDF) (in Norwegian) (4 ed.). University of Bergen: 21. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2018-10-24. Retrieved .
I østlandsk er denne lyden normalt en såkalt tapp
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Cruz-Ferreira (1995:91)
- ^ Martínez-Celdrán, Fernández-Planas & Carrera-Sabaté (2003:255)
- ^ a b Yavuz & Balc? (2011:25)
- ^ a b Sjoberg (1963:13)
- ^ Miller, Mark T. (2007). A Grammar of West Coast Bajau (Ph.D. thesis). University of Texas at Arlington. p. 34. hdl:10106/577.
- ^ Kwan-Young Oh. "Reanalysis of Flapping on Level Approach". Retrieved .
- ^ Tomasz P. Szynalski. "Flap t FAQ". Retrieved .
- ^ Walker (2011:9-10)
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External links
- List of languages with [?] on PHOIBLE
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