The voiced palatal lateral fricative is a type of
consonantal sound, used in some
spoken languages. The symbol in the
International Phonetic Alphabet
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that represents this sound is , and the equivalent
X-SAMPA symbol is
L_r.
It is not known to occur as a
phoneme in any language, but it does occur as an allophone of in
Italian and
Jebero.
[: "(...) in a large number of Italian accents, there is considerable friction involved in the pronunciation of , creating a voiced palatal lateral fricative (for which there is no established IPA symbol)."]
Features
Features of the voiced palatal lateral fricative:
Occurrence
See also
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Index of phonetics articles
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* Acoustic phonetics
* Active articulator
* Affricate
* Airstream mechanism
* Alexander John Ellis
* Alexander Melville Bell
* Alfred C. Gimson
* Allophone
* Alveolar approximant ()
* Alveolar click ()
* Alveolar consonant
* Alveolar ejecti ...
Notes
References
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Lateral consonants
Pulmonic consonants
Voiced oral consonants