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Trills may be realized as a single contact, like a tap or flap, but are variable, whereas a tap/flap is limited to a single contact. When a trill is brief and made with a single contact it is sometimes erroneously described as an (allophonic) tap/flap, but a true tap or flap is an active articulation whereas a trill is a passive articulation.
The terms tap and flap are often used interchangeably. Peter Ladefoged proposed the distinction that a tap strikes its point of contact directly, as a very brief stop, and a flap strikes the point of contact tangentially: "Flaps are most typically made by retracting the tongue tip behind the alveolar ridge and moving it forward so that it ...
Voiced bilabial flap; Voiced dental and alveolar lateral flaps; Voiced dental and alveolar taps and flaps; Voiced epiglottal tap; Voiced labiodental flap; Voiced palatal lateral flap; Voiced retroflex flap; Voiced retroflex lateral flap; Voiced uvular tap and flap; Voiced velar lateral tap; Voiceless alveolar lateral flap; Voiceless alveolar ...
The voiceless alveolar tap or flap is rare as a phoneme. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ɾ̥ , a combination of the letter for the voiced alveolar tap/flap and a diacritic indicating voicelessness. The equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is 4_0.
Flapping or tapping, also known as alveolar flapping, intervocalic flapping, or t-voicing, is a phonological process involving a voiced alveolar tap or flap; it is found in many varieties of English, especially North American, Cardiff, Ulster, Australian and New Zealand English, where the voiceless alveolar stop consonant phoneme /t/ is pronounced as a voiced alveolar flap [ɾ], a sound ...
2.5 Flap (tap) consonants. 2.6 Trill consonants. 2.7 Lateral consonants. 2.8 Ejective consonants. 2.9 Implosive consonants. 2.10 Labialized consonants. 2.11 ...
The voiced retroflex flap is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ɽ , a letter r with tail, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is r` .
Rhotics, where there are one or more brief occlusions, are a class of consonants that comprises trills and flaps Flap, often called a tap, is a momentary closure of the oral cavity. The "tt" of "utter" and the "dd" of "udder" are pronounced as a flap [ɾ] in North American and Australian English.