cacuminal

• Adjectif désuet utilisé en phonétique pour qualifier un son articulé avec la pointe de la langue repliée vers l'arrière et appliquée contre le palais dur (rétroflexe).

An obsolete adjective used in phonetics to describe a sound produced with the tip of the tongue curled back against the hard palate (retroflex).

1. Pronounced with tongue tip curled backC2formal

   Describes a speech sound produced by curling the tip of the tongue upward and backward toward the hard palate.

   cacuminal

   • The 'r' sound in some Indian English dialects is cacuminal.
   • Linguists study cacuminal consonants in various languages.
   • The retroflex 't' is a classic example of a cacuminal sound.

   Synonymescerebralinvertedretroflex