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- noun phonetics The IPA
diacritic of primary articulation: <˕ >, used to denote alowered phone ; forvowels , the diacritic denotes a slightly moreopen utterance ; forconsonants , it moves thepoint of articulation one step forward in this chain:nasal →plosive →fricative →approximant →trill →tap ,flap → lateral fricative → lateral approximant → lateral flap.
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