Alveolo-palatal fricative
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Alveolo-palatal fricatives are a class of consonants in some oral languages. The consonants are sibilants, a variety of fricative. Their place of articulation is postalveolar. They differ in voicing.
The voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative and voiced alveolo-palatal fricative are written ⟨ɕ⟩ and ⟨ʑ⟩ in the International Phonetic Alphabet.
Features
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Features of alveolo-palatal fricatives:[1]
- Its manner of articulation is fricative, which means it is produced by constricting air flow through a narrow channel at the place of articulation, causing turbulence.
- Its place of articulation is alveolo-palatal. This means that:
- Its place of articulation is postalveolar, meaning that the tongue contacts the roof of the mouth in the area behind the alveolar ridge (the gum line).
- Its tongue shape is laminal, meaning that it is the tongue blade that contacts the roof of the mouth.
- It is heavily palatalized, meaning that the middle of the tongue is bowed and raised towards the hard palate.
- It is an oral consonant, which means air is allowed to escape through the mouth only.
- It is a central consonant, which means it is produced by directing the airstream along the center of the tongue, rather than to the sides.
- Its airstream mechanism is pulmonic, which means it is articulated by pushing air solely with the intercostal muscles and abdominal muscles, as in most sounds.
Examples
[edit]IPA | Description | Example | |||
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Language | Orthography | IPA | Meaning | ||
ɕ | Voiceless alveolo-palatal sibilant | Mandarin | 小 (xiǎo) | [ɕiɑu˨˩˦] | small |
ʑ | Voiced alveolo-palatal sibilant | Polish | zioło | [ʑɔwɔ] | herb |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Brinton, Donna & Laurel J. (2010). The Linguistic Structure of Modern English. Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing. pp. 32, 294. ISBN 9789027211712.