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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Feb 25.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Linguist Phon. 2016 Feb 25;30(3-5):174–201. doi: 10.3109/02699206.2015.1127999

Table 2.

Pharyngeal constriction observations across languages

Trill [r] Palatal Approximant [ɹ], [ʐ] Uvular Fricative [ʁ]
% PC #/Total n % PC #/Total n %PC #/Total n
Spanish 100% 13/13 N/A N/A
Malayalam 100% 14/14 100% 13/13 N/A
US English N/A 100% 19/19 N/A
French (Cannes dialect) N/A N/A 15/15
Persian 100% 8/8 100% 18/18 N/A