Dental, alveolar and postalveolar lateral approximants | Wikipedia audio article
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Dental, alveolar and postalveolar lateral approximants


00:01:06 1 Features
00:02:29 2 Occurrence
00:02:54 2.1 Dental or denti-alveolar
00:03:04 2.2 Alveolar
00:03:12 2.3 Postalveolar
00:03:20 2.4 Variable
00:03:29 3 Velarized alveolar lateral approximant
00:05:01 3.1 Features
00:06:32 3.2 Occurrence
00:06:40 3.2.1 Dental or denti-alveolar
00:06:49 3.2.2 Alveolar
00:06:57 3.2.3 Variable
00:07:05 4 See also
00:07:23 5 External links



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SUMMARY
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The alveolar lateral approximant is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents dental, alveolar, and postalveolar lateral approximants is ⟨l⟩, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is l.
As a sonorant, lateral approximants are nearly always voiced. Voiceless lateral approximants, /l̥/ are common in Sino-Tibetan languages, but uncommon elsewhere. In such cases, voicing typically starts about halfway through the hold of the consonant. No language is known to contrast such a sound with a voiceless alveolar lateral fricative [ɬ].
In a number of languages, including most varieties of English, the phoneme /l/ becomes velarized ("dark l") in certain contexts.   By contrast, the non-velarized form is the "clear l" (also known as: "light l"), which occurs before and between vowels in certain English standards. Some languages have only clear l. Others  may not have a clear l at all, or only before front vowels (especially [i]).