Voiced dental and alveolar taps and flaps
The voiced alveolar tap or flap is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages.The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents a dental, alveolar, or postalveolar tap or flap is ⟨ɾ⟩.The distinction is noticeable in the speech of some American English speakers in distinguishing the words "potty" (tap [ɾ]) and "party" (retroflex [ɽ]).For linguists who do not make the distinction, alveolars and dentals are typically called taps and other articulations flaps.If the alveolar flap is the only rhotic consonant in the language, it may be transcribed with ⟨r⟩ although that symbol technically represents the trill.
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