cacuminal
/kəˈkjuːmɪnəl/
adjective
- Relating to or pronounced with the tip of the tongue curled back toward the hard palate; retroflex.
- In phonetics class, we practiced making a cacuminal 't' by curling the tongue backward.
- Linguists study cacuminal consonants to understand how different languages use tongue placement.
- The cacuminal sound in some Indian languages is difficult for English speakers to imitate.
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