Meaning of retracted tongue root | Babel Free

Definitions

An articulation involving retraction of the tongue root.

attributive, often

Examples

“The high back retracted tongue root vowel is always further back than its counterpart, rather than further forward, as is the case for the traditional lax back vowels.”

“/ʕ/ is typically realized as an epiglottal stop, gliding as a pharyngeal approximant into a following retracted-tongue-root vowel, as in [ʡˤʊ̙maː] ‘water flowing from a spout’.”

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