In phonetics, advanced tongue root (ATR) and retracted tongue root (RTR) are contrasting states of the root of the tongue during the pronunciation of vowels...

backness, vowel height, nasalization, roundedness, and advanced and retracted tongue root. Vowel harmony is found in many agglutinative languages. The given...

vowels: four to five "tense" vowels (advanced tongue root; +ATR or -RTR), five "lax" vowels (retracted tongue root, +RTR or -ATR), which are not entirely contrastively...

either pronounced with advancement of the root of the tongue or with retraction of the root of the tongue. Gilley uses the terms "extended larynx" or...

vowels, where the body of the tongue approaches the velum ([u, o, ɨ], etc.), and retracted vowels, where the root of the tongue approaches the pharynx ([ɑ...

A retracted vowel is a vowel sound in which the body or root of the tongue is pulled backward and downward into the pharynx. The most retracted cardinal...

write [ʊ]. In Kabiye and Ikposso it is used to write [u] (with retracted tongue root). It is also used in the North American language Choctaw to write...

consonants normally involve a neutral or a retracted tongue root, whereas voiced stops often involve an advanced tongue root: two articulations that cannot physically...

front/back quality of vowels is actually one of neutral versus retracted tongue root. Phonetic values are paired with the corresponding character in...

theory) Retract (group theory) Retraction (topology) Retracted (phonetics), a sound pronounced to the back of the vocal tract, in linguistics Retracted tongue...