apicoprepalatal

apicoprepalatal adjective: articulated with the tip of the tongue against a spot just to the front of the palate.

Adjective

apicoprepalatal (comparative more apicoprepalatal, superlative most apicoprepalatal)

Articulated with the tip of the tongue against a spot just to the front of the palate.
- Voiced apicoprepalatal or dorsoprepalatal assibilated fricative, similar to English […]1968, Melvyn C. Resnick, The Coordination and Tabulation of Phonological Data in American Spanish Dialectology
- […] rather indicates a (retroflex) apicoprepalatal nasal. But Firth himself calls the place of articulation "the hard palate", which strictly […]1973, Erik Gren, Orientalia Suecana

[…] but the difference between the apicoprepalatal and the domed lateral diaphone (9.231) is not.1994, Herbert Pilch, Manual of English Phonetics:
[…] as for the Japanese ingressive apicoprepalatal fricative approximant or […]2002, Fernando Poyatos, Nonverbal Communication across Disciplines: Volume 2: Paralanguage, kinesics, silence, personal and environmental...

comparative	more apicoprepalatal
superlative	most apicoprepalatal

From apico- + prepalatal.

What does apicoprepalatal mean?: Apicoprepalatal means articulated with the tip of the tongue against a spot just to the front of the palate.
How do you use apicoprepalatal in a sentence?: […] but the difference between the apicoprepalatal and the domed lateral diaphone (9.231) is not.
What part of speech is apicoprepalatal?: Apicoprepalatal is an adjective.

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