postalveolar
Past the alveolus
Postalveolar describes consonant sounds produced with the tongue positioned just behind the alveolar ridge—the bony bump behind the upper front teeth.
The "sh" in *ship* and the "zh" in *measure* are postalveolar fricatives.
The term appears mainly in phonetics and linguistics: English has several postalveolar consonants.
Foremost oral muscle point
- apicalAt the highest point
- coronalCirclet or wreath
- palatalConcerning mouth's roof
- mannerWay of behaving
voiced · voiceless · grooved · blade · constriction · airstream · oral · central
Consonant with audible friction
- affricateConsonant blending closure and friction
- sibilantFricative with hiss quality
- shVoiceless fricative digraph
- stridentHarsh and piercing
shushing · hissing · flat · domed · click · nasal · flap · trill
Bony anterior mouth roof
- tongue bladeOral examination spatula
- tongue tipForemost oral muscle point
- oral cavityMouth's interior chamber
- palateOral cavity ceiling
Minimal distinctive sound unit
- allophoneNon-distinctive sound variation
- distinctive featureIdentifying quality or trait
- coronalCirclet or wreath
- anteriorSituated toward the front
distributed · strident · delayed release · contrast · coda · cluster · assimilation
tongue tip
Foremost oral muscle point
manner · voiced · voiceless · grooved · blade · constriction · airstream · oral · central · lateral
fricative
Consonant with audible friction
- affricateConsonant blending closure and friction
- sibilantFricative with hiss quality
- shVoiceless fricative digraph
strident · shushing · hissing · flat · domed · click · nasal · flap · trill
hard palate
Bony anterior mouth roof
- tongue bladeOral examination spatula
- tongue tipForemost oral muscle point
- oral cavityMouth's interior chamber
palate · velum · upper teeth · roof of mouth
phoneme
Minimal distinctive sound unit
- allophoneNon-distinctive sound variation
- distinctive featureIdentifying quality or trait
- coronalCirclet or wreath
anterior · distributed · strident · delayed release · contrast · coda · cluster · assimilation
measure
Unit of quantity
pleasure · azure · beige · rouge · genre · garage · massage · collage · mirage · camouflage
- articulationbilabial, glottal, labial, palatal, pharyngeal
- speech soundsvowel, diphthong, nasal, monophthong, vocal folds
- consonantsd, h, q, r, w
- phoneticsphonemes, phoneme, vocal folds, consonants, vowels
- palatalsyod
- coronalcoronal suture, solar corona, coronagraph