Voiced dental, alveolar and postalveolar lateral approximants
The voiced alveolar lateral approximant is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages.In a number of languages, including most varieties of English, the phoneme /l/ becomes velarized ("dark l") in certain contexts.It is an alveolar, denti-alveolar, or dental lateral approximant, with a secondary articulation of velarization or pharyngealization.However, some scholars use that symbol to represent the velarized alveolar lateral approximant anyway[54] – though such usage is considered non-standard.Hard consonants) Features of the dark l: Symbols to the right in a cell are voiced, to the left are voiceless.
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