lateral consonant

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• Lateral consonant — Lateral release ◌ˡ IPA number 426 view …   Wikipedia

• Lateral — may refer to:*Lateral, an anatomical direction see Human anatomical terms *Lateral pass, type of pass in American and Canadian football *Lateral thinking, thinking concerned with changing concepts and perception *Lateral consonants, L like… …   Wikipedia

• Lateral flap — A lateral flap is a family of consonantal sounds, used in some spoken languages. There are four attested or claimed lateral flaps in the world s languages: *The alveolar lateral flap is quite common. *A retroflex lateral flap is found in the… …   Wikipedia

• Lateral release (phonetics) — In phonetics, a lateral release is the release of a plosive consonant into a lateral consonant. Such sounds are transcribed in the IPA with a superscript el, for example as IPA| [dˡ] . In English words such as bottle, in which historically the… …   Wikipedia

• lateral — adjective 1》 of, at, towards, or from the side or sides. 2》 Phonetics (of a consonant, especially the English clear l) pronounced with partial closure of the air passage by the tongue, which allows the breath to flow on one or both sides of the… …   English new terms dictionary

• Consonant — Not to be confused with the musical concept of consonance For the alternative rock group, see Consonant (band). Places of articulation Labial Bilabial Labial–velar Labial–coronal Labiodental …   Wikipedia

• Consonant harmony — Sound change and alternation Metathesis Quantitative metathesis …   Wikipedia

• Lateral clicks — Alveolar lateral click (plain) ǁ ʖ …   Wikipedia

• lateral — laterally, adv. /lat euhr euhl/, adj. 1. of or pertaining to the side; situated at, proceeding from, or directed to a side: a lateral view. 2. pertaining to or entailing a position, office, etc., that is different but equivalent or roughly… …   Universalium

• lateral — Synonyms and related words: accented, allophone, alveolar, apical, apico alveolar, apico dental, articulated, articulation, aspiration, assimilated, assimilation, back, barytone, bifacial, bilabial, bilateral, bowl, broad, cacuminal, cast,… …   Moby Thesaurus