In addition, the digraph dr stands for postalveolar, or a prenasalized trill in careful pronunciation, or more commonly for some people and in some dialects.
Their place of articulation is postalveolar.
The point of contact may be alveolar or postalveolar, and the distinctive quality may arise more from the shaping than from the position of the tongue.
Notice that these are "not" palatalized, but postalveolar consonants.
In north coast dialect, also virtually no dental stops before /i/, /j/ or //, and in its place they use postalveolar affricates (/d/ and /t/).
The dental, postalveolar and palato-velar plosives are affricated to in many contexts.
The voiced postalveolar affricative sometimes occurs as an alternative to the fricative.
Velars are reinterpreted as palatals, labialized postalveolar affricates are reinterpreted as retroflex consonants, and other labialized consonants are removed.
