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| | Lateral consonant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | One, found before vowels as in lady or fly, is called clear l, pronounced as the alveolar lateral approximant [l] with a "neutral" position of the body of the tongue. |
 | | The other variant, so-called dark l found before consonants or word-finally, as in bold or tell, is pronounced as the velarized alveolar lateral approximant [ɫ;] with the tongue assuming a spoon-like shape with its back part raised, which gives the sound a [w]- or [ɰ]-like resonance. |
 | | The symbol for the alveolar lateral flap is the basis for the expected symbol for the : |
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