- The
voiced dental, alveolar, and
postalveolar lateral approximants are a type of
consonantal sound used in many
spoken languages. The
symbol in the International...
- This
article contains phonetic transcriptions in the
International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an
introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For...
- The
voiced alveolar and
postalveolar approximants are
types of
consonantal sounds used in some
spoken languages. The
symbol in the
International Phonetic...
- (pronunciation variants): the
clear or
plain [l], as in light, and the dark or
velarised [ɫ], as in full. GA has dark l in most cases.
clear l: RP
light [laɪt]...
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Rarely used; this
sound is
normally represented by ⟨c⟩. l /l/
Probably velarised [ɫ] (as in
Modern English) when in coda position. m /m/ n /n/, including...
-
notable feature is that
consonants (except /h/) come in pairs, one "broad" (
velarised,
pronounced with the back of the
tongue pulled back
towards the soft palate)...
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approximant [β̞] or a
labiovelar approximant [w]. The
lateral /l/ is
slightly velarised postvocalically in most dialects,
particularly in the north. /x/ and /ɣ/...
-
pronounced as one sound, not a
nasal plus a glide. The ll
sound is a
velarised lateral,
close to
English dark l. The
letter ç is
sometimes written ch...
- such as technical, patriarch, etc. (Wells 1982, 408). /l/ is
usually velarised (see dark l)
except in
borrowings like "glen" (from
Scottish Gaelic "gleann")...
-
preserved in Nova Scotia,
including the
pronunciation of the
broad or
velarised l (l̪ˠ) as [w], as in the
Lochaber dialect.: 131 The
Endangered Languages...
