Alveolar
In phonetics , alveolar describes a place of articulation of a sound. An alveolar is formed with the tongue on the upper dental ridge (the bulge behind the upper incisors), the alveolar process .
German alveolar ( dental perineal sounds ) can be described in more detail as follows:
- coronal-dental-alveolar (tongue blade against teeth and dental dam):
- Plosives
- Fricatives
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Affricates
- / ts / as in Ka tz e
- coronal-alveolar (tongue blade against dental dam):
- apicoalveolar (tongue tip against the dental dam):
AFI | description | example | |||
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language | Notation | AFI | Meaning ( signified ) | ||
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voiced alveolar nasal | Castellano | pa n | [pa n ] | "Loaf" |
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voiceless alveolar plosive | Castellano | t aza | [ t aza] | "Cup" |
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voiced alveolar plosive | Castellano | d at | [ d an] | "Dan" |
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voiceless alveolar fricative | Castellano | s al | [ s al] | "Salt" |
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voiced alveolar fricative | English | z oo | [ z uː ] | "Zoo" |
ʦ | voiceless alveolar affricate | German | z ince | [ ʦ aɪt ] | "Time" |
ʣ | voiced alveolar affricate | Italian | z ucchero | [ ʣ ukkero ] | "Sugar" |
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voiceless lateral alveolar fricative | Welsh | Ll wyd | [ ɬ ʊɪd ] | Proper name "Lloyd" |
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voiced lateral alveolar fricative | Zulu | dl ala | [ ɮ Ala ] | "play" |
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voiced alveolar approximant | English | r ed | [ ɹʷ ed ] | "Red" |
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voiced lateral alveolar approximant | Castellano | l uz | [ l uθ ] | "Light" |
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voiced alveolar tap | Castellano | pe r o | [ pe ɾ o ] | "but" |
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simple lateral alveolar vibrant | Japanese | 心 | [ ko̥ko ɺ o] | "Heart" |
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voiced alveolar vibrant | Castellano | pe rr o | [ pe r o ] | "Dog" |
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alveolar ejective | Georgian | ტ ი ტ ა | [ tʼ i tʼ a ] | "Tulip" |
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alveolar ejective fricative | Amharic | [ S ' ɛɡa ] | "thank you" | |
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voiced alveolar implosive | Vietnamese | đ ã | [ ɗ ɐː ] | Signs of the past |
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lateral alveolar click | Nama | ǁ î | [k ǁ ĩĩ] | "controversial" |

Sagittal plane of the human oral cavity , oro pharynx and Larynopharynx. Places of articulation (active and passive): 1 exolabial (outer part of the lip), 2 endolabial (inner part of the lip), 3 dental (teeth), 4 alveolar (front part of the dental dam), 5 postalveolar (rear part of the dental dam and a little behind), 6 prepalatal (front part of the hard palate), 7 palatal (hard palate), 8 velar (soft palate), 9 uvular (also postvelar; uvula), 10 pharyngeal (pharynx), 11 glottal (also laryngeal; vocal cords) , 12 epiglottal (epiglottis), 13 radical (tongue root), 14 posterodorsal (rear part of the tongue), 15 anterodorsal (front part of the tongue), 16 laminal (tongue leaf ), 17 apical (tongue tip), 18 sublaminal (also subapical; underside the tongue)
literature
- John Clark, Collin Yallop, Janet Fletcher: An Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology. 3. Edition. Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics, Wiley-Blackwell, 2006.
- T. Alan Hall: Phonology: An Introduction. De Gruyter Study Book, de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2000, ISBN 3-11-015641-5 .
- Peter Ladefoged , Ian Maddieson: The Sounds of the World's Languages. Blackwell, Oxford 1996, ISBN 0-631-19814-8 .
Web links
Wiktionary: Alveolar - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Wiktionary: Tooth muzzle - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
- Phonetics and Phonology. Chapters 1-9. University of Bremen
- International Phonetic Association
Individual evidence
- ^ Christian Ebert: Phonetics & Phonology. Articulatory Phonetics. (Hall, Chapters 1.1–1.5; Clark & Yallop, Chapter 2 & 3) (PDF) Bielefeld University. Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies. WS 2005/2006.
- ^ Christian Ebert: Phonetics & Phonology. Articulatory Phonetics. (PDF) Bielefeld University. Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies. WS 2005/2006 (Clark & Yallop, Chapter 2 & 6).
- ^ Christian Ebert: Phonetics & Phonology. Articulatory Phonetics. (Hall, Chapters 1.1–1.5; Clark & Yallop, Chapter 2 & 3) (PDF) Exercises & Solutions, Bielefeld University. Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies. WS 2005/2006.