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abcThe voiced retroflex stops and the nasal /ɖʱ,ɖ,ɳ/ have
flapped allophones [ɽʱ,ɽ,ɽ̃]. Intervocalically all three are flapped. The stops are also flapped when before or after other consonants.
Mistry (1997:659) The stops are unflapped initially, geminated, and postnasally; and flapped intervocalically, finally, and before or after other consonants.
Masica (1991:97).
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abcWhile there is dialectal variation in this regard, for Wikipedia transcriptions [ʃ] appears contiguous with palatal segments and [ʂ] appears before retroflex consonants: [spəʂʈ] ('clear').
Mistry (1997:658)
Mistry, P.J. (1997), "Gujarati Phonology", in Kaye, A.S (ed.), Phonologies of Asia and Africa, Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns,
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Mistry, P.J. (2003), "Gujarati", in Frawley, William (ed.), International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, vol. 2 (2nd ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press,
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