{"id":81,"date":"2011-08-08T08:13:07","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T07:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=81"},"modified":"2011-09-19T14:53:38","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T13:53:38","slug":"advanced-tongue-root","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=81","title":{"rendered":":Advanced tongue root:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The name of a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=508\">binary feature<\/a>, often abbreviated to ATR. [+ATR] sounds are produced with the root of the tongue drawn forward and the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=538\">pharyngeal cavity<\/a> enlarged. [+ATR] corresponds to the older feature specification <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=542\">[+tense]<\/a> and [-ATR] to [-tense]. The long vowels in English are [+ATR], while the short vowels are [-ATR].<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img src=\"atr.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The above diagram is a tracing based on a cineradiographic analysis of a [+ATR] vowel (solid line) and a [-ATR] vowel (dashed line). Both vowels were produced by an Igbo speaker. The diagram is from Stewart J.M. (1967) Tongue root position in Akan vowel harmony. <em>Phonetica<\/em> 16:185-204..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The name of a binary feature, often abbreviated to ATR. [+ATR] sounds are produced with the root of the tongue drawn forward and the pharyngeal cavity enlarged. [+ATR] corresponds to the older feature specification [+tense] and [-ATR] to [-tense]. The &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=81\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":118,"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\/81"}],"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=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2996,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81\/revisions\/2996"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}