Alveolar flap

The alveolar tap/flap is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is {{IPA|ɾ}}, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is 4.

In English

The alveolar flap is not a phoneme of English, but it occurs as an allophone of and (the voiceless alveolar plosive and voiced alveolar plosive) in North American English and sometimes in Australian and New Zealand English when they occur in unstressed syllables, like in the words rider ({{IPA|}} or {{IPA|}}) and better ({{IPA|}} or {{IPA|}}).

Related Topics:
Phoneme - Allophone - Voiceless alveolar plosive - Voiced alveolar plosive - North American English - Australian - New Zealand English - Syllable

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See flapping.

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