A laminal consonant is a phone (speech sound) produced by obstructing the air passage with the blade of the tongue, the flat top front surface just behind...

lips to postalveolar, and possibly prepalatal. It contrasts with laminal consonants, which are produced by creating an obstruction with the blade of the...

the tongue tip (apical) or the tongue blade (laminal). Retroflex consonants, like other coronal consonants, come in several varieties, depending on the...

fricative relative to that of another. Affricate Apical consonant Hush consonant Laminal consonant List of phonetics topics There are likely to be more aspirated...

(including domed palato-alveolar, laminal alveolo-palatal, and apical retroflex) just behind that, the subapical retroflex consonants curled back against the hard...

(palato-alveolar) consonants are not attested with subapical articulation and fully palatalized (such as alveolo-palatal) sounds occur only with laminal articulation...

That is, a denti-alveolar consonant is (pre)alveolar and laminal rather than purely dental. Although denti-alveolar consonants are often labeled as "dental"...

Palatals are consonants articulated with the body of the tongue raised against the hard palate (the middle part of the roof of the mouth). Consonants with the...

laminal consonants), as in French and Spanish. The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) does not have separate symbols for the alveolar consonants....

and abdominal muscles, as in most sounds. Tongue shape Apical consonant Laminal consonant Index of phonetics articles Puppel, Nawrocka-Fisiak & Krassowska...