Flap consonant
| Manners of articulation |
| Nasal consonant |
| Stop consonant |
| Fricative consonant |
| Affricate consonant |
| Apical consonant |
| Laminal consonant |
| Lateral consonant |
| Approximant consonant |
| Semivowel |
| Liquid consonant |
| Flap consonant |
| Trill consonant |
| Ejective consonant |
| Implosive consonant |
| Click consonant |
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In phonetics, a flap or tap is a type of consonantal sound, which is produced with a single contraction of the muscles so that one articulator is thrown against another. The main difference between a flap and a stop consonant is that in a flap, there is no buildup of air pressure behind the place of articulation.
The flap or tap consonants identified by the International Phonetic Alphabet are:
| IPA | Description | Example | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Language | Orthography | IPA | Meaning | ||
| ɽ | retroflex flap | Japanese | ラーメン (rāmen) | /ɽaːmɛɴ/ | ramen |
| ɾ | alveolar flap | North American English | ladder or latter | /læɾɚ/ | N/A |
| ɺ | alveolar lateral flap | ||||
Other flaps that are less common include bilabial flaps [w̆] (present in Banda) and labiodental flaps [v̆] (present in Kera).
See also
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