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cacuminal
/kəˈkjuːmənəl/
adj 2noun 1
Collocations
4ADJ.
alveolar, produced
CACUMINAL + NOUN
s
PREP.
than
ADV.
slightly
Definitions
adj
1
Pertaining to a point, top, or crown.
2
Pronounced using a concave or retroflexed tongue; occasionally palatal sounds more generally.
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.
The cacuminal s is produced by raising the tongue-tip to a point behind the alveoli, with a concavity in its upper surface;
noun
1
A sound pronounced using a retroflexed tongue.
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adjective — pronounced with the tip of the tongue turned back toward the
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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.
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The cacuminal s is produced by raising the tongue-tip to a point behind the alveoli, with a concavity in its upper surface;
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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 an
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