blade of the tongue वाक्य

With the laminal alveolar fricative, the friction occurs across the blade of the tongue, the tongue tip pointing toward the lower teeth.
R-colored vowels can be articulated in various ways : the tip or blade of the tongue may be turned up during at least part of the articulation of the vowel ( a retroflex articulation ) or the back of the tongue may be bunched.
:As to articulation, according to our article on retroflex consonants, you should keep your tongue flat ( i . e . not curl up the tip ), with the blade of the tongue ( the top surface of the tongue near the tip ) touching the roof of the mouth behind the alveolar ridge.
Peter Ladefoged and Ian Maddieson describe this vowel as being pronounced " by slightly lowering the body of the tongue while simultaneously raising the blade of the tongue ( . . . ) Acoustically this pronunciation is characterized by having a very high F3, and an F2 which is lower than that in . " They suggest that this may be the usual Stockholm pronunciation of.