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Place of Articulation (0 words) |
 | Postalveolar sounds involve the area just behind the alveolar ridge as the passive articulator. |
| Linguists have traditionally used very inconsistent terminology in referring to the postalveolar POA. |
| "Postalveolar", the official term used by the International Phonetic Association, is unambiguous, not to mention easier to spell. |
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Fricatives LANGUAGE SCHOOL EXPLORER (716 words) |
| All sibilants are coronal, but may be dental, alveolar, postalveolar, or palatal (retroflex) within that range. |
| However, at the postalveolar place of articulation the tongue may take several shapes: domed, laminal, or apical, and each of these is given a separate symbol and a separate name. |
| Prototypical retroflexes are sub-apical and palatal, but they are usually written with the same symbol as the apical postalveolars. |
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