The voiced alveolar lateral flap is a type of
consonant
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al sound, used in some
spoken language
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s. The symbol in the
International Phonetic Alphabet
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that represents this sound is , a fusion of a rotated lowercase letter with a letter . Approved in 1928, the symbol represented a sound intermediate between and or between and until 1979 when its value was redefined as an alveolar lateral flap.
Some languages that are described as having a lateral flap actually have a flap that is indeterminate with respect to centrality, and may surface as either central or lateral, either in
free variation or allophonically depending on surrounding vowels and consonants.
Features
Features of the voiced alveolar lateral flap:
Occurrence
Dental
Alveolar
See also
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Index of phonetics articles
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Perception of English /r/ and /l/ by Japanese speakers
Japanese has one liquid phoneme , realized usually as an apico-alveolar tap and sometimes as an alveolar lateral approximant . English has two: rhotic and lateral , with varying phonetic realizations centered on the postalveolar approximant ...
Notes
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{{LetterR
Alveolar consonants
Lateral consonants
Tap and flap consonants
Pulmonic consonants
Oral consonants