Flap consonant


| style="background: #ccf; text-align: center;" | Manners of articulation
Nasal consonant
Stop consonant
Fricative 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:
Alveolar flap Spanish [] pero (="but")
Lateral alveolar flap
style="font-size:24px" align="center" retroflex flap
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