Coronal

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In phonology and phonetics, coronal is a feature which characterizes sounds that are produced by raising the tongue blade (including the tip of the tongue) from its neutral position towards the teeth or the hard palate.

Examples

Examples of coronal sounds in English and Dutch are /t/, /d/, /n/, /s/, /z/ and /l/.

Link

Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics

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