An additional ' sharp ' locus subdivides coronals into anterior (dental) vs. posterior (postalveolar, palatal) sounds, at least for some whistlers.
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Also, for some languages that distinguish dental vs. alveolar stops and nasals, these are actually articulated closer to prealveolar andpostalveolar, respectively.
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Toda also has a four-way sibilant distinction, with one alveolar, one palato-alveolar, and two retroflex (apicalpostalveolarand subapical palatal).
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They may be sub-apical retroflex and should not be confused with the more widespreadpostalveolarclicks, which are sometimes called retroflex.
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Here the place is further back in the mouth, in thepostalveolaror prepalatal region.
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There are contrasting alveolar andpostalveolarapical consonants, the latter often called retroflex.
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There are also phonetically palatalized consonants (marked with an acute accent) that contrast with this; thus the distinction is made between palatal (postalveolar) and palatalized.
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Velars are reinterpreted as palatals, labializedpostalveolaraffricates are reinterpreted as retroflex consonants, and other labialized consonants are removed.
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The voicedpostalveolaraffricative sometimes occurs as an alternative to the fricative.
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The dental,postalveolarand palato-velar plosives are affricated to in many contexts.
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In north coast dialect, also virtually no dental stops before /i/, /j/ or //, and in its place they usepostalveolaraffricates (/d/ and /t/).
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Notice that these are "not" palatalized, butpostalveolarconsonants.
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The point of contact may be alveolar orpostalveolar, and the distinctive quality may arise more from the shaping than from the position of the tongue.
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Their place of articulation ispostalveolar.
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In addition, the digraph dr stands forpostalveolar, or a prenasalized trill in careful pronunciation, or more commonly for some people and in some dialects.
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