Definitions

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  • adjective phonetics articulated with the tongue near or touching the back of the alveolar ridge

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Examples

  • Tropylium: "Another noob question: is the -si / -śi flip-flopping something systematic, or free variation doesn't seem improbable if either represents a postalveolar?"

    Bonfantes and the 'dative of agent' distraction 2008

  • Another noob question: is the -si / -śi flip-flopping something systematic, or free variation doesn't seem improbable if either represents a postalveolar?

    Bonfantes and the 'dative of agent' distraction 2008

  • C-cedille is also used in Albanian, Kurdish and Turkish (plus related languages) to represent the voiceless postalveolar affricate ch - as in 'church'.

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