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Voiced dental and alveolar lateral flaps

Consonantal sounds represented by ⟨ɺ⟩ in IPA From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Voiced dental and alveolar lateral flaps
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The voiced alveolar lateral flap is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ɺ, a fusion of a rotated lowercase letter r with a letter l. Approved in 1928, the symbol represented a sound intermediate between [d] and [l][1][2] or between [r] and [l][3][4] until 1979, when its value was redefined as an alveolar lateral flap.[5]

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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.[6]

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Features

Features of the voiced alveolar lateral flap:

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Occurrence

Dental

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Alveolar

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See also

Notes

References

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