the distinction, alveolars and dentals are typically called taps and other articulations flaps. No language contrasts a tap and a flap at the same place...

for some speakers, and Kamviri, which also has apical alveolar taps and flaps. The tap and flap consonants identified by the International Phonetic Alphabet...

Alphabet: [r] – Voiced alveolar trill [r̥] – Voiceless alveolar trill [ʙ] – Voiced bilabial trill [ʙ̥] – Voiceless bilabial trill [ɽ͡r] – Voiced retroflex trill...

flaps and taps are two different kinds of articulation, but since no language has (yet) been found to make a distinction between, say, an alveolar flap...

for the voiced alveolar lateral fricative, ⟨ɮ⟩, but also notes that the sound to be prevelar.) Donald J. Phillips (1976). Wahgi Phonology and Morphology...

fricatives (and most often is so), unless it occurs single between vowels, being so realized as a dental, alveolar, postalveolar or retroflex flap. In the...

of a dental stop or an alveolar stop, it will usually be laminal if it is a dental stop, and the stop will usually be apical if it is an alveolar stop...

just like "panning". In this case, both alveolar stops and alveolar nasal plus stop sequences become voiced taps after two vowels when the second vowel...

approximant [ð̼˕] (usually transcribed ⟨ð̼⟩) dental approximant [ð̞] (usually transcribed ⟨ð⟩) alveolar & post-alveolar approximant [ɹ] retroflex approximant...

"utter" and the "dd" of "udder" are pronounced as a flap [ɾ] in North American and Australian English. Many linguists distinguish taps from flaps, but there...