Glossary term A

Advanced Tongue Root

Advanced tongue root refers to the features of a sound made by drawing the root of the tongue forward. This feature distinguishes between tense vowels as [+ ATR] and lax vowels as [- ATR]

  1. Burquest and Payne 1993, 18
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