The alveolar tap or flap is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents dental, alveolar, and postalveolar flaps is ɾ, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is 4. Many linguists use the terms tap and flap indiscriminantly. Peter Ladefoged proposed for a while that it may be useful to distinguish between them. However, his usage has been inconsistent, contradicting its ...

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• Alveolar tap - Features
• Alveolar tap - In English
• Alveolar tap - Other languages
• Alveolar tap - Spanish

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Alveolar tap - Spanish. The alveolar tap is the single orthographic 'r' between vowels, as in pero ("but"), but not in perro ("dog"), where it is an alveolar trill. (Initial orthographic r, as in rana ("frog"), however, and (for many people) the final r as in ir ("to go"), are also trills.) ...

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Alveolar tap, Alveolar tap - Features, Alveolar tap - In English, Alveolar tap - Other languages, Alveolar tap - Spanish

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