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

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Coronal consonant


00:00:44 1 Places of articulation
00:01:26 2 Examples
00:01:41 2.1 European
00:01:49 2.2 Australian Aboriginal
00:02:04 3 See also



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SUMMARY
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Coronal consonants are consonants articulated with the flexible front part of the tongue. Among places of articulation, only the coronal consonants can be divided into as many articulation types: apical (using the tip of the tongue), laminal (using the blade of the tongue), domed (with the tongue bunched up), or subapical (using the underside of the tongue) as well as different postalveolar articulations (some of which also involve the back of the tongue as an articulator): palato-alveolar, alveolo-palatal and retroflex. Only the front of the tongue (coronal) has such dexterity among the major places of articulation, allowing such variety of distinctions. Coronals have another dimension, grooved, to make sibilants in combination with the orientations above.