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I presume that if your tongue tip is free while you're articulating a consonant, you can make a secondary narrowing with your tongue tip towards the alveolar ridge to produce a double-articulated sound.

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  • If yes, do we have, or has there been a notation to mark it in IPA or other (proposed) phonetic transcriptions?
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[p˞abəbli], if we ever encountered such a thing, we would call it a sequence of consonant plus r. However, IPA does have the rhotic hook which could be pressed into service to notate such a thing, if one could argue that you had found a single consonant and not a sequence. Osama Fujimura's CD model does in fact have a richer set of consonants in English, including "rhotic labial" for <pr>. There are no good cases for such a sound.

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  • Thanks for the answer. What I was taught was, if I remember correctly, the rhotic hook is only applicable to vowel. Isn't there such a restriction?
    – broccoli forest
    Commented Feb 28, 2016 at 17:09
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    That's not a definition restriction in the IPA, it's more a matter of observation that "rhoticity" only exists for vowels, unless you are speaking of ʈ, ɳ etc. which earn separate letters.
    – user6726
    Commented Feb 28, 2016 at 17:42

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