Although denti-alveolar consonants are often described as dental, it is the rear-most point of contact that is most relevant, for this is what defines the maximum acoustic space of resonance and will give a consonant its characteristic sound.
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From this, we can gather that the sounds he describes are dental consonants . 100 years later we find a description characterizing the sounds as " end of the Tongue to the Goums " [ gums ], which suggests an alveolar consonant.
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Palatalization is phonetically realized as strong palatal friction or as slight vowel fronting in the syllable and occurs if a syllable margin is a palatal and sometimes when the margin is an alveolar consonant ( with the exception of liquids ) or bilabial stops.
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:OK, you might also want to know that both of the written Ts are pronounced as palatal consonants, IPA [ c ], not alveolar consonants, IPA [ t ] . contribs ) 00 : 01, 5 July 2007 ( UTC)
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"' Alveolar consonants "'are articulated with the tongue against or close to the superior alveolar ridge, which is called that because it contains the dental, because the tip of the tongue can be seen near to or touching the teeth.
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But yes, both velar and dental / alveolar consonants get palatalised in many languages, sometimes as free variation, sometimes as regular allophonic variation, and sometimes as a regular phonemic substitution .-- talk ) 01 : 18, 18 March 2011 ( UTC)
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A group in Middle Chinese corresponding to �w is pronounced with alveolar consonants [ t ] or [ t? ], and not with retroflex affricates, for example, 0�w 0 as [ ti ], 0�z 0 as [ t�� ], 0͑ 0 as [ t?yK ].
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The southern Kuma dialect has these three laterals, though the alveolar is rather uncommon . ( The northern Danga dialect has two laterals, dental fricative and alveolar flap . ) The dental and velar laterals assimilate to or before dental and alveolar consonants; the alveolar only to before alveolar consonants.
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The southern Kuma dialect has these three laterals, though the alveolar is rather uncommon . ( The northern Danga dialect has two laterals, dental fricative and alveolar flap . ) The dental and velar laterals assimilate to or before dental and alveolar consonants; the alveolar only to before alveolar consonants.
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The other alveolar consonants do not have this variation, unless the triggering environment is provided within a prosodic word :'crab'( in citation form ) >'the king's crab'( ) . ( The sounds transcribed with } } may actually be closer to .)
