单词 | cacuminal |
释义 | cacuminal, a. Phonetics.|kæˈkjuːmɪnəl| [f. L. cacūmināre (see cacuminate v.) + -al.] Of sounds: produced with the tip of the tongue ‘inverted’ or curled upwards towards the hard palate; retroflex. Hence as n.
1862Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. VII. 354 Müller proposes ‘cacuminal’ as a name for the class [of consonants]. 1902E. W. Scripture Elem. Exper. Phonetics xxi. 297 The term ‘cacuminal’ (or ‘cerebral’, or ‘inverted’) is applied to a frontal articulation, in which the point of the tongue is turned up and back. 1915G. Noël-Armfield Gen. Phonetics xvii. 99 Indian grammarians class these consonants as cerebrals. The name for them in the terminology of phonetics is retroflex or cacuminal. Ibid. 100 To pronounce the cacuminals. 1931[see coronal a. 5]. |

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