apicoprepalatal

English

Etymology

From apico- +‎ prepalatal.

Adjective

apicoprepalatal (comparative more apicoprepalatal, superlative most apicoprepalatal)

1. (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 […]

See also

• apicoalveolar, apicosubalveolar, apicopostalveolar, apicopalatal