{"id":3962,"date":"2011-11-13T16:48:35","date_gmt":"2011-11-13T15:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=3962"},"modified":"2012-07-13T11:41:45","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T10:41:45","slug":"tap","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=3962","title":{"rendered":":Tap:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The name of a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=781\">manner of articulation<\/a>. A tap is made by an extremely brief contact between the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=57\">active articulator<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=636\">passive articulator<\/a>. In <strong>GB<\/strong> an <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=237\">alveolar <\/a>tap is sometimes used as a variety of <\/strong> <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>\/r\/<\/strong><\/span>. There are some languages which have a tap in <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=707\">contrast <\/a>to a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=1670\">trill<\/a>. An example from Spanish, where an alveolar tap contrasts with an alveolar trill: pero <\/strong> <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>pe\u027eo<\/strong><\/span> (&#8220;but&#8221;) vs perro <\/strong> <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>pero<\/strong><\/span> (&#8220;dog&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>The image below shows the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=5139\">speech pressure waveform<\/a> and wide-band <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=4213\">spectrogram <\/a>for a voiced alveolar tap.<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"tap.mp3\"><img src=\"ear_icon.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Click the ear icon to hear an example.<br \/>\n<center><img src=\"tap.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The name of a manner of articulation. A tap is made by an extremely brief contact between the active articulator and the passive articulator. In GB an alveolar tap is sometimes used as a variety of \/r\/. There are some &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=3962\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":217,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3962"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3962"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5405,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3962\/revisions\/5405"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}