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262:voiceless alveolar trill
148:Sonorants contrast with
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1313:Manner of articulation
672:Articulatory phonetics
402:North American English
66:are sonorants, as are
846:Pharyngeal/epiglottal
619:. Oxford: Blackwell.
1171:Labio-palatalization
260:contains a phonemic
861:Double articulation
498:Patterns of sounds
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383:fortition
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272:Icelandic
258:phonology
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367:/ŋ,ŋʲ,m/
343:laterals
321:Examples
314:diarrhea
308:rhetoric
197:phonemes
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139:syllable
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50:that is
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135:nucleus
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