Postalveolar consonant | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-03

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Postalveolar consonant


00:00:58 1 Postalveolar sibilants
00:02:24 1.1 Tongue shape
00:04:04 1.2 Point of tongue contact (laminal, apical, subapical)
00:05:35 1.3 Position of tongue tip (laminal "closed")
00:07:40 1.4 Examples
00:08:49 2 Postalveolar non-sibilants
00:09:20 2.1 Non-palatalized (retroflex)
00:10:42 2.2 Palatalized
00:13:20 2.3 Examples
00:14:55 3 Postalveolar clicks
00:15:18 4 See also



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Postalveolar consonants (sometimes spelled post-alveolar) are consonants articulated with the tongue near or touching the back of the alveolar ridge, farther back in the mouth than the alveolar consonants, which are at the ridge itself but not as far back as the hard palate, the place of articulation for palatal consonants. Examples of postalveolar consonants are the English palato-alveolar consonants [ʃ] [tʃ] [ʒ] [dʒ], as in the words "ship", "'chill", "vision", and "jump", respectively.
There are a large number of types of postalveolar sounds, especially among the sibilants. The three primary types are palato-alveolar (such as [ʃ ʒ], weakly palatalized), alveolo-palatal (such as [ɕ ʑ], strongly palatalized), and retroflex (such as [ʂ ʐ], unpalatalized). The palato-alveolar and alveolo-palatal subtypes are commonly counted as "palatals" in phonology since they rarely contrast with true palatal consonants.