Dental and alveolar ejective stops
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An alveolar ejective stop is a sound used in some spoken languages. It is not in English.
| t’ | |||
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| Encoding | |||
| X-SAMPA | t_> | ||
Characteristics
- We produce it at dental. It means that we produce this sound with the tongue at the upper teeth, the lower teeth, or both the upper teeth and the lower teeth. (Many stops and liquids that we say it is dental consonants are actually denti-alveolar consonants.)
- The airstream mechanism is ejective (glottalic egressive). It means that the air is forced out by pumping the glottis upward.
- Its behavior is stop, or plosive. It means that we produce this sound by obstructing airflow in the vocal tract. (The term plosive contrasts with nasal stops, where the blocked airflow is redirected through the nose.)
Dental
| t̪’ | |
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| Encoding | |
| X-SAMPA | t_d_> |
A dental ejective stop is a sound used in some spoken languages. It is not in English.