trəˌflɛks adjective
1.
bent backward; exhibiting retroflexion.
2.
Phonetics. articulated with the tip of the tongue curled upward and back against or near the juncture of the hard and soft palates; cacuminal; cerebral; coronal.
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| —adj | |
| 1. | bent or curved backwards |
| 2. | phonetics of, relating to, or involving retroflexion |
| [C18: from Latin retrōflexus, from retrōflectere, from | |
| retroflexed or retroflexed | |
| —adj | |
| [C18: from Latin retrōflexus, from retrōflectere, from | |
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Retroflex
is always a great word to know.
So is sonorant. Does it mean:
| involving lip articulation or a rounded vowel |
| a voiced sound that is less sonorous than a vowel but more sonorous than a stop or fricative and that may occur as either a sonant or a consonant, as (l, r, m, n, y, w) |
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retroflex
in phonetics, a consonant sound produced with the tip of the tongue curled back toward the hard palate. In Russian the sounds sh, zh (like the English s sound in "pleasure"), and shch are retroflex; there are also many retroflex consonants in the languages of India.
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