Voiced dental and alveolar trills

Features Features of a voiced alveolar trill: • Its place of articulation may be: • dental (behind the upper front teeth), • alveolar (at the alveolar ridge), or • post-alveolar (behind the alveolar ridge). • It is most often apical, which means it is pronounced with the tip of the tongue. Occurrence Dental Alveolar Post-alveolar Variable ==Voiced alveolar fricative trill ==

In Czech, there are two contrasting alveolar trills. Besides the typical apical trill, written r, there is another laminal trill, written ř, in words such as rybáři 'fishermen' and the common surname Dvořák. Its manner of articulation is similar to but is laminal and the body of the tongue is raised. It is thus partially fricative, with the frication sounding rather like but less retracted. It sounds like a simultaneous and , and some speakers tend to pronounce it as , , or . In the IPA, it is typically written as plus the raising diacritic, , but it has also been written as laminal . (Before the 1989 IPA Kiel Convention, it had a dedicated symbol .) The Kobon language of Papua New Guinea also has a fricative trill, but the degree of frication is variable. The Kpwe language of Cameroon has been reported to have a similar sound. Features Features of the voiced alveolar fricative trill: • Its place of articulation is laminal alveolar, which means it is articulated with the blade of the tongue at the alveolar ridge. Examples ==See also==