Voiceless dental and alveolar lateral fricatives

Voiceless alveolar lateral fricative
ɬ
IPA Number148
Audio sample
Encoding
Entity (decimal)ɬ
Unicode (hex)U+026C
X-SAMPAK
Braille⠦ (braille pattern dots-236)⠇ (braille pattern dots-123)
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Voiceless alveolar lateral approximant
IPA Number155 402A
Encoding
X-SAMPAl_0
voiceless velarized alveolar lateral approximant
ɫ̥

The voiceless alveolar lateral fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents voiceless dental, alveolar, and postalveolar lateral fricatives is [ɬ], and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is K.

The symbol [ɬ] is called "belted l" and is distinct from "l with tilde", [ɫ], which transcribes a different sound – the velarized (or pharynɡealized) alveolar lateral approximant, often called "dark L".[1]

Some scholars also posit the voiceless alveolar lateral approximant distinct from the fricative.[2] More recent research distinguishes between "turbulent" and "laminar" airflow in the vocal tract.[3] Ball & Rahilly (1999) state that "the airflow for voiced approximants remains laminar (smooth), and does not become turbulent".[4] The approximant may be represented in the IPA as ⟨⟩.

In Sino-Tibetan language group, Ladefoged & Maddieson (1996) argue that Burmese and Standard Tibetan have voiceless lateral approximants [l̥] and Li Fang-Kuei & William Baxter contrast apophonically the voiceless alveolar lateral approximant from its voiced counterpart in the reconstruction of Old Chinese. Scholten (2000) includes the voiceless velarized alveolar lateral approximant [ɫ̥].

However, the voiceless dental & alveolar lateral approximant is constantly found as an allophone of its voiced counterpart in British English and Philadelphia English[5][6][7] after voiceless coronal and labial stops, who is velarized before back vowels, the allophone of [l] after voiceless dorsal and laryngeal stops is most realized as a voiceless velar lateral approximant.[8] See English phonology.

  1. ^ "Dark L". home.cc.umanitoba.ca. Retrieved 7 March 2023.
  2. ^ Pike (1943), pp. 71, 138–9.
  3. ^ Shadle (2000), pp. 37–8.
  4. ^ Ball, Martin J.; Rahilly, Joan (1999). Phonetics: the science of speech. London: Arnold. pp. 50–51. ISBN 978-0-340-70009-9.
  5. ^ Gordon (2004), p. 290.
  6. ^ Lodge (2009), p. 168.
  7. ^ Collins & Mees (1990), p. 93.
  8. ^ Grønnum (2005), p. 154.

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