apicoprepalatal

comparative more apicoprepalatal · superlative most apicoprepalatal

1. human sciencesArticulated with the tip of the tongue against a spot just to the front of the palate.

   […] as for the Japanese ingressive apicoprepalatal fricative approximant or […]

   2002, Fernando Poyatos, Nonverbal Communication across Disciplines: Volume 2: Paralanguage, kinesics, silence, personal and environmental interaction, John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, page 162

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   Voiced apicoprepalatal or dorsoprepalatal assibilated fricative, similar to English […]

   1968, Melvyn C. Resnick, The Coordination and Tabulation of Phonological Data in American Spanish Dialectology

   […] rather indicates a (retroflex) apicoprepalatal nasal. But Firth himself calls the place of articulation "the hard palate", which strictly […]

   1973, Erik Gren, Orientalia Suecana

   […] but the difference between the apicoprepalatal and the domed lateral diaphone (9.231) is not.

   1994, Herbert Pilch, Manual of English Phonetics