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Postalveolar in a sentence

Postalveolar meaning

Articulated with the tongue near or touching the back of the alveolar ridge.

Using Postalveolar

  • The main meaning on this page is: Articulated with the tongue near or touching the back of the alveolar ridge.

Context around Postalveolar

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 24.5 words
  • Position in the sentence: 1 start, 1 middle, 2 end
  • Sentence types: 4 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

apical 1× alveolar 1×

Often after:

flap 1× consonants 1× etc 1× sounds 1×

Sentence patterns with Postalveolar

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

and the postalveolar sounds are 1× into alveolar postalveolar etc consonants 1× lateral apical postalveolar flap 1× velar and postalveolar consonants front 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

also flaps are 1× grammar similarly slavic 1× the original outcomes 1×

Common sentence endings:

and no vowel 1× apical postalveolar flap 1× postalveolar etc consonants 1× rather than size 1×

Words around Postalveolar

Just before it in the word index:

postal 1.090 postage 247 posta 8 post 24.959 possums 32 possum 46

Just after it in the word index:

postanjyan 4 postapocalyptic 6 postasi 7 postauto 4 postbag 3 postbank 12

Similar in corpus frequency:

aadujeevitham 7 aani 7 aarne 7 aasb 7 aasen 7 aashiqui 7

Corpus analysis for Postalveolar

  • In this selection, "postalveolar" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 24.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, apical, alveolar, flap, consonants and etc stand out and add context to how "postalveolar" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include and the postalveolar sounds are and into alveolar postalveolar etc consonants. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "postalveolar" sits close to words such as aadujeevitham, aani and aarne, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with postalveolar

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Also flaps are used as basic rhotics in Japanese and Korean languages, although it is a lateral apical postalveolar flap. (20 words)

The original outcomes of palatalization must have continued to be phonetically palatalized even after they had developed into alveolar postalveolar /etc. consonants. (22 words)

These and the postalveolar sounds are typical of diminutives, which are used frequently in child language and motherese (mainly to show affection rather than size). (25 words)

Longer example sentences

Grammar Similarly, Slavic languages have extensive morphophonemic alternations in their derivational and inflectional morphology, including between velar and postalveolar consonants, front and back vowels, and between a vowel and no vowel. (31 words)

These and the postalveolar sounds are typical of diminutives, which are used frequently in child language and motherese (mainly to show affection rather than size). (25 words)

The original outcomes of palatalization must have continued to be phonetically palatalized even after they had developed into alveolar postalveolar /etc. consonants. (22 words)

Example sentences (4)

Also flaps are used as basic rhotics in Japanese and Korean languages, although it is a lateral apical postalveolar flap.

Grammar Similarly, Slavic languages have extensive morphophonemic alternations in their derivational and inflectional morphology, including between velar and postalveolar consonants, front and back vowels, and between a vowel and no vowel.

The original outcomes of palatalization must have continued to be phonetically palatalized even after they had developed into alveolar postalveolar /etc. consonants.

These and the postalveolar sounds are typical of diminutives, which are used frequently in child language and motherese (mainly to show affection rather than size).

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "postalveolar" in a sentence?
An example: "Also flaps are used as basic rhotics in Japanese and Korean languages, although it is a lateral apical postalveolar flap." This page contains 4 example sentences with the word "postalveolar" from authentic English texts.
What does "postalveolar" mean?
Postalveolar means: Articulated with the tongue near or touching the back of the alveolar ridge.
How many example sentences with "postalveolar" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 4 example sentences with "postalveolar", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.