Vibrant consonant

Airstreams
Manners of articulation
Obstruent Stop Affricate Fricative Strident Sibilant Sonorant Nasal Approximant Semivowel Vowel Vibrant Flap/Tap Trill Liquid Rhotic Lateral Occlusive Continuant
Egressive Ingressive Ejective Implosive Lingual (clicks) Linguo-pulmonic Linguo-ejective Percussive
See also
Articulatory phonetics Aspirated consonant No audible release Phonation Place of articulation Voice Voicelessness

In phonetics, a vibrant is a class of consonant including taps and trills (a trill is, "sometimes referred to as a vibrant consonant."^[1]). Spanish has two vibrants, /r/ and /ɾ/.

The term is sometimes used when it is not clear whether the rhotic (r-sound) in a language is a tap or a trill.

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References

↑ Nicolosi, Lucille; Harryman, Elizabeth; Kresheck, Janet; eds. (2004). Terminology of Communication Disorders, p.84. Lippincott Williams & Wilkin. ISBN 9780781741965.

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