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| | How do you pronounce your L's? | Antimoon Forum |
 | | alveolar l (clear l): the tip of the tongue touches the alveolar ridge behind the teeth, but the back of the tongue isn't raised towards the velum. |
 | | A "clear l" is just [l], that is, a voiced alveolar lateral approximant, a "dark l" is [5], that is, a voiced velarized alveolar lateral approximant, and a "vocalized l" is just [w], that is, a voiced labiovelar approximant. |
 | | Mind you that I don't think that alveolar ridge is necessarily directly touched, even though it may be, in [5], but I think that the velum /is/ touched, or at least gotten close to. |
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