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English
Etymology
From apico- + prepalatal.
Adjective
apicoprepalatal (comparative more apicoprepalatal, superlative most apicoprepalatal)
- (phonetics, of a sound) Articulated with the tip of the tongue against a spot just to the front of the palate.
1968, Melvyn C. Resnick, The Coordination and Tabulation of Phonological Data in American Spanish Dialectology:Voiced apicoprepalatal or dorsoprepalatal assibilated fricative, similar to English […]
1973, Erik Gren, Orientalia Suecana:[…] rather indicates a (retroflex) apicoprepalatal nasal. But Firth himself calls the place of articulation "the hard palate", which strictly […]
1994, Herbert Pilch, Manual of English Phonetics:[…] but the difference between the apicoprepalatal and the domed lateral diaphone (9.231) is not.
2002, Fernando Poyatos, Nonverbal Communication across Disciplines: Volume 2: Paralanguage, kinesics, silence, personal and environmental interaction, John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, page 162:[…] as for the Japanese ingressive apicoprepalatal fricative approximant or […]
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