The voiced palatal lateral fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages . The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ ?? ⟩, though in extIPA ⟨ ??? ⟩ is preferred. The equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is L_r .

This sound is not known to occur as a phoneme in any language, but it does occur as an allophone of /?/ in Italian and Jebero . ^{[1] [2]}

Features [ edit ]

Features of the voiced palatal lateral fricative:

• Its manner of articulation is fricative , which means it is produced by constricting air flow through a narrow channel at the place of articulation, causing turbulence .
• Its place of articulation is palatal , which means it is articulated with the middle or back part of the tongue raised to the hard palate .
• Its phonation is voiced, which means the vocal cords vibrate during the articulation.
• It is an oral consonant , which means air is allowed to escape through the mouth only.
• It is a lateral consonant , which means it is produced by directing the airstream over the sides of the tongue, rather than down the middle.
• The airstream mechanism is pulmonic , which means it is articulated by pushing air solely with the intercostal muscles and abdominal muscles , as in most sounds.

Occurrence [ edit ]

See also [ edit ]

• Index of phonetics articles

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References [ edit ]