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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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Retroflex
is always a great word to know.
So is lax. Does it mean:
| a diacritic indicating a vowel or other modification of sound |
| articulated with relatively relaxed tongue muscles |
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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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