Voiceless post-palatal stop

The voiceless palatal plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound used in some vocal languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is c.

If distinction is necessary, the voiceless alveolo-palatal plosive may be transcribed as (Relative articulation#Advanced and retracted, advanced ) or (Relative articulation#Advanced and retracted, retracted and Palatalization (phonetics), palatalized ), but these are essentially equivalent, because the contact includes both the blade and body (but not the tip) of the tongue. The equivalent X-SAMPA symbols are c_+ and t_-' or t_-_j, respectively. There is also a non-IPA letter ("t", plus the curl found in the symbols for alveolo-palatal sibilant fricatives ), used especially in Sinology, sinological circles.

It is common for the phonetic symbol to be used to represent voiceless postalveolar affricate or other similar affricate consonant, affricates, for example in the Languages of India, Indic languages. This may be considered appropriate when the place of articulation needs to be specified and the distinction between plosive consonant, plosive and affricate is not contrastive.

There is also the voiceless post-palatal plosiveInstead of "post-palatal", it can be called "retracted palatal", "backed palatal", "palato-velar", "pre-velar", "advanced velar", "fronted velar" or "front-velar". For simplicity, this article uses only the term "post-palatal". in some languages, which is articulated slightly more back compared with the place of articulation of the prototypical palatal consonant, though not as back as the prototypical voiceless velar plosive, velar consonant. The International Phonetic Alphabet does not have a separate symbol for that sound, though it can be transcribed as (retracted ) or (advanced ). The equivalent X-SAMPA symbols are c_- and k_+, respectively.

Especially in broad transcription, the voiceless post-palatal plosive may be transcribed as a palatalized voiceless velar plosive ( in the IPA, k' or k_j in X-SAMPA).

Features

Features of the voiceless palatal stop:

** The otherwise identical post-palatal variant is articulated slightly behind the hard palate, making it sound closer to the velar .
** Alveolo-palatal consonant, Alveolo-palatal variant is articulated also with the blade of the tongue at or behind the alveolar ridge.

Occurrence

Palatal or alveolo-palatal

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Post-palatal

See also

* Index of phonetics articles

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