This stretching can be accompanied by extreme lowering of the larynx (or extreme raising of the tongue, touvularposition).
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Theuvularfricatives are realised as postvelar or velar fricatives, and theuvular/q/ is pronounced as a glottal stop.
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Theuvularfricatives are pronounced as velar or postvelar sounds.
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The adaptation of the velar fricatives into velar stops is even simpler than the adaptation ofuvularfricatives.
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These doubly articulated sounds thus have a primary coronal articulation and a secondaryuvulararticulation.
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In addition, the set ofuvular, pharyngeal and laryngeal consonants is prohibited from co-occurring, indicating that shared place of articulation can be construed rather broadly.
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Theuvular'r' employed by these suburban ladies results from putting the tip of the tongue far back in the roof of the mouth.
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Uvulars involve backing of the rear tongue dorsum into theuvularregion, just at the top of the pharynx.
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The properties of the velar oruvularefflux are shared with the context.
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Emphasis spread from theuvularstop /q/ targets only the adjacent vowel.
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As with most trills,uvulartrills are often reduced to a single contact, especially between vowels.
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Auvularfollowed by a front vowel, as in kinsman, for example, is written with the corresponding back vowel to specify theuvularvalue:.
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This fricative or affricate is more often pronounced further back, in theuvularplace of articulation (although it is represented in this article as).
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Though quite variable in realization, it has an allophone when occurring afteruvularand epiglottal consonants.
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Historically, this occurred so often with the voiceduvularfricative that it disappeared entirely from the language.
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