Voiced palatal plosive
The
voiced palatal plosive is a type of
consonantal sound, used in some
spoken languages. The symbol in the
International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent
X-SAMPA symbol is
J\. The IPA symbol can be considered either a lowercase dotless
j with a stroke or a turned lowercase letter
f.
Hungarian is one of the few languages with true palatal plosives. More commonly, the symbol [ɟ] is used to represent a
voiced postalveolar affricate, for example in the
Indic languages. This may be considered appropriate when the place of articulation needs to be specified, but the distinction between stop and affricate is not contrastive, and therefore of secondary importance.
Features of the voiced palatal plosive:
* Its
manner of articulation is
plosive or stop, which means it is produced by obstructing airflow in the vocal tract. However, there is a tendency for this sound to become a
voiced postalveolar affricate.
* Its
place of articulation is
palatal which means it is articulated with the middle or back part of the
tongue raised against the
hard palate.
* Its
phonation type is voiced, which means the vocal cords are vibrating during the articulation.
* It is an
oral consonant, which means air is allowed to escape through the mouth.
* It is a
central consonant, which means it is produced by allowing the airstream to flow over the middle of the tongue, rather than the sides.
* The
airstream mechanism is
pulmonic egressive, which means it is articulated by pushing air out of the
lungs and through the vocal tract, rather than from the
glottis or the mouth.
*
gj in
Albanian*
ď in
Czech and
Slovak; it is also pronounced in
di [],
dí [] and in Czech
dě and Slovak
de - both pronounced as []
*
gy in
Hungarian (see
Hungarian gy)
*
ģ in
Latvian*It occurs also in
Greek as an allophone of [] before [] or [].
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