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The alveolar tap or '''flap''' is a type of Consonant al sound, used in some Spoken Language s. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents Dental , Alveolar , and Postalveolar Flaps is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is 4. Many linguists use the terms ''tap'' and ''flap'' indiscriminately. Peter Ladefoged proposed for a while that it may be useful to distinguish between them. However, his usage has been inconsistent, contradicting itself even between different editions of the same text. The last proposed distinction was that a tap strikes its point of contact directly, as a very brief plosive, whereas a flap strikes the point of contact tangentially: "Flaps are most typically made by retracting the tongue tip behind the alveolar ridge and moving it forward so that it strikes the ridge in passing." However, he no longer feels this is a useful distinction to make, and prefers to use the word ''flap'' in all cases. For linguists that do make the distinction, the coronal tap is transcribed as a fish-hook ar, , while the flap is transcribed as a small capital dee, , which is not recognized by the IPA. Otherwise alveolars and dentals are typically called ''taps'', and other articulations ''flaps''. No language contrasts a tap and a flap at the same place of articulation. FEATURES Features of the alveolar flap/tap:
IN ENGLISH The alveolar flap is not a Phoneme of English, but it occurs as an Allophone of and [d (the Voiceless Alveolar Plosive and Voiced Alveolar Plosive ) in North American English and sometimes in Australian and New Zealand English when they occur in unstressed Syllable s, like in the words ''rider'' ( or ) and ''better'' ( or ). See Flapping . OTHER LANGUAGES Spanish The alveolar tap is the single orthographic 'r' between vowels, as in ''pero'' ("but"), but not in ''perro'' ("dog"), where it is an Alveolar Trill . (Initial orthographic ''r'', as in ''rana'' ("frog"), however, and (for many people) the final ''r'' as in ''ir'' ("to go"), are also trills.) Swedish The alveolar tap sometimes occurs in Central Swedish dialects as an allophone of /r/. SEE ALSO |
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