Alveolar consonant spirante voiced

The alveolar consonant spirante voiced is a not very frequent consonant sound spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet is. This symbol represents one reversed. In the API one, represents it a rolled .

Characteristics

Here characteristics of the alveolar consonant spirante voiced:

Its mode of articulation is spirant, which means that it is produced by moderately contracting the phonatory bodies at the joint, hardly causing a turbulence.
Its joint is alveolar, which means that it is articulated with either the point ( apical ) or the blade ( laminal ) of the language against the alveolar peak.
Its phonation is voiced, which means that the vocal cords vibrate at the time of the articulation.
It is a oral Consonne, which means that the air does not escape that by the mouth.
It is a central Consonne, which means that it is produced by letting the air pass above the medium of the language, rather than by the sides.
Its mechanism of draft is égressif pulmonary, which means that it is articulated by pushing the air by the lungs and through the channel vocatoire, rather than by the glottis or the mouth.

In French

French does not have it.

Other languages

The majority of the dialects of the English have this sound, noted by the letter R and wr . In the beginning, only this last was labialized, but the distinction grew blurred today and both marked are labialized at the beginning of a Syllabe.

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