flap consonant
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consonants produced with a single muscle contraction
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- Instance of
- manner of articulation
- Part of
- vibrant consonant
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- Category:Flap consonants
- opposite of
- trill consonant
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- Flap consonants
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Encyclopedic overview
In phonetics, a flap or tap is a type of consonantal sound, which is produced with a single contraction of the muscles so that one articulator (such as the tongue) is thrown against another.
Contrast with stops and trills
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “flap consonant” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.