In Min dialects the retroflex stops have merged with the dental stops, while elsewhere they have merged with the retroflex sibilants.
12.
The International Phonetic Alphabet does not provide separate symbols for dental stops, but simply uses the diacritic attached to the corresponding alveolar symbol.
13.
This regularity is the most consistent in the case of dental stops in older texts; later monuments often show irregular variation of this rule.
14.
The Sinhala alphabet has prenasalized versions of g, ( voiced retroflex stop ), d * ( voiced dental stop ) and b.
15.
In contrast, the central northeastern dialect has almost exclusive predominance of dental stops before / i /, / j / or / ) /.
16.
Sanskrit, Hindi and all other Indic languages have an entire set of dental stops that occur phonemically as voiced and voiceless, and with or without aspiration.
17.
:: As for Spanish, the voiced dental fricative is merely a variant ( intervocalic and postvocalic ) allophone of the voiced dental stop " d ".
18.
Like young children most of Genie's first words were monosyllabic consonant-vowel-( consonant ) sequences, usually consisting of an unaspirated Bilabial stop or dental stop and a monophthong.
19.
It is especially pertinent to what appears to be confusion of voiceless and voiced dental stops, in which signs-dV-and-tV-are employed interchangeably in different attestations of the same word.
20.
As in most Anglophone Caribbean dialects, in Virgin Islands Creole, dental fricatives ( the "-th " sound ) are often omitted from speech, and replaced by dental stops ( the "-t " sound ).
