Universal 1859:
- Original
- The alveolar and retroflex stops generally tend to become taps and flaps intervocalically.
- Standardized
- The alveolar and retroflex stops generally tend to become taps and flaps intervocalically.
- Keywords
- liquid, stop, tap, flap, retroflex
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- unconditional
- Status
- unclear whether diachronic and/or achronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- languages in Bhat 1974
- Source
- Bhat 1974: 89
- Counterexamples
Flap: the tip of the tongue curled in and struck aginst the roof of the mouth in passing on its way back to its restposition.Tap: the tip of the tongue strikes against the roof of the mouthimmediately after leavcing its rest position (Ladefoged 1971, cited in Bhat 1974: 85).