What does cacuminal mean in English? Meaning of cacuminal definition and abbreviation with examples.
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What is "cacuminal" in English? Definition and Explanations
Meaning of "cacuminal": pronounced with the tip of the tongue turned back toward the hard palate
Adjective
Meaning: pronounced with the tip of the tongue turned back toward the hard palate
Synonyms: cacuminal
retroflex
Similar: backward
Adjective: Pertaining to a point, top, or crown.(linguistics, phonology) Pronounced using a retroflexed tongue. 1942, George Leonard Trager, Studies in Linguistics, Volumes 1-7, page 52, /L/ and /n/, slightly more cacuminal than the alveolar series, are very rare, and occur only in word-final position. 1951, William James Entwistle, The Spanish Language: Together with Portuguese, Catalan and Basque, page 218, The cacuminal s is produced by raising the tongue-tip to a point behind the alveoli, with a concavity in its upper surface; 1992, Anatoly Liberman, Vowel lengthening before resonant + another consonant and svarabhakti in Germanic, Irmengard Rauch, Gerald F. Carr, Robert L. Kyes (editors), On Germanic Linguistics: Issues and Methods, Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs 68, page 190, It is a trill, because the choice can be only between a cacuminal trill or a cacuminal lateral, but cacuminal l already exists in the system […] .1942, George Leonard Trager, Studies in Linguistics, Volumes 1-7, page 52, /L/ and /n/, slightly more cacuminal than the alveolar series, are very rare, and occur only in word-final position.1951, William James Entwistle, The Spanish Language: Together with Portuguese, Catalan and Basque, page 218, The cacuminal s is produced by raising the tongue-tip to a point behind the alveoli, with a concavity in its upper surface;1992, Anatoly Liberman, Vowel lengthening before resonant + another consonant and svarabhakti in Germanic, Irmengard Rauch, Gerald F. Carr, Robert L. Kyes (editors), On Germanic Linguistics: Issues and Methods, Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs 68, page 190, It is a trill, because the choice can be only between a cacuminal trill or a cacuminal lateral, but cacuminal l already exists in the system […] .
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