Questions tagged [trills]
A consonantal sound produced by vibrations between the articulator and the place of articulation
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Does the lack of tonsils make pronouncing french sounds harder?
I've had my tonsils removed a long time ago. I'm facing difficulty in pronouncing some sounds that start in throat like the french R. Does the lack of tonsils make it impossible for me produce the ...
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Trilled R between a vowel and a consonant
Take the Finnish word Terve /tɛrʋɛ/ as an example, how to pronounce the R which comes after a vowel and is followed by a consonant? I have listened to some samples but they just sound like a tapped R, ...
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What's the difference between a single-contact alveolar trill and alveolar flap/tap
is there any difference between the two? is it even possible to produce an alveolar trill with a single vibration of the tongue?
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the sound of "erre moscia" in Italian
In Italian we have the alveolar trill as a phoneme, but not all native speakers (me, for example) can do it: some people have what we call an "Erre Moscia" meaning we can't properly do the ...
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What is the name of the category for the vibrations that the tongue does in linguistics?
There are guttural sounds such as the French R so I'm guessing that there is name for the category of speech sound in which the tongue vibrates! For example, in the words pater, et rubente http://www....
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Plosives with trilled release or allophones of /u/?
I've been looking at contexts where [ʙ] arises and I stumbled on the Namuyi wikipedium. This presents a really interesting phonology, with phonemic /pʙ/, /tʙ/, /bʙ/, and /dʙ/. Now I don't generally ...
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Do any languages contrast [r] and [r:]?
I've heard of languages that contrast [r] and [ɾ] but I am unable to find any language that contrast a normal trill and a long trill. I searched far and near but to no avail. So is there any language ...
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Can a trill be creaky?
Or in other words, is it possible to pronounce [ʙ̰], [r̰], [ʀ̰], or [ʢ̰]?
I tried to pronounce these phones by myself, and I always failed. It seems the airstream from the constricted glottis cannot ...
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Strange Vocal Trills (L, Th, and Q)
I’m currently spending my quarantine working on the language for my novel. The language is alien-like, so I wanted to make it extremely difficult in it’s phonology. There are several trills. The ...
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Does a synchronically reduced or diachronically changed trill /r/ often become an [ɾ] rather than [ʐ] and why?
In the phonology of a series of languages, /r/ exists as a trill, and is reduced into a flap in informal speeches or in a syllable-final position. Why is it happened to be a flap, not a fricative?
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Phonetic similarity between alveolar and uvular trill
In a few languages of Europe (French,German,Italian),these phonemes are in free variation. To my ears they sound quite distinct,but maybe it is because I lack sufficient knowledge about their acoustic ...
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Vowel Deletion and Allophone variation in Japanese High Vowel Clusters?
I seem to have heard from films, shows and other japanese programs that there is a kind of vowel deletion in certain contexts which triggers a consonant change which might be allophonic.
This paper ...
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Arabic /R/ - correct pronunciation in Modern Standard Arabic
Arabic has many dialects, but in general the /R/ in Modern Standard Arabic is an alveolar trill (or is it not?) - like the Spanish perro - according to Wikipedia and it is also what I have heard from ...
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Is a creaky voice a glottal trill?
When I pronounce an approximant, a trill, and then a stop, I have an impression that they are discriminated by the strength of articulation (the "strength of articulation" here means the strength of ...
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Why isn't there a dental trill?
First off, I'm an engineer with a passing interest in linguistics, so this might well have an obvious answer--it's just not obvious to me.
The IPA, as I understand it, includes three distinct trills, ...
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What type of trilled R shows up in Thai?
I am one of those native English speakers who always had a very difficult time learning how to roll r's when learning other languages as a child. Now that I'm an adult, I'm trying to learn Thai, and I ...
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Is there use of a trilled "L" sound in any language? Is a trilled "L" even possible?
I've seen nothing on a trilled "L" sound anywhere. I've tried producing the trilled "L" sound and I can get something that seems similar. Is it possible to trill an "L" and if so are there any ...
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Does any language contrast more than two trills?
Last night I was thinking about the trill sounds and how most languages I know about have just one, though they vary in which one they have.
Most common seems to be the alveolar trill /r/, as in ...
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How are these rolled "r"s pronounced?
I recently came upon a viral/funny Quebecois video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InMJopurNTE
In it, the guy is pronouncing his "r"s (e.g. in gros, bras) very oddly. I can't reproduce this sound, ...
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Is the apico-labial trill a phoneme in any language?
As far as anyone here knows, are there any natural languages in which the apico-labial trill is a phoneme?
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Is the sound "ř" unique to Czech?
Czech has special sound which to me seems to be a voiced trilled r. It is written as "ř".
Wikipedia describes it a different way: A raised alveolar trill, and uses the IPA notation [r̝].
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