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 Encyclopedia: Alveolar lateral flap
The Archi language of the Dagestani family has a voiceless velar lateral fricative that is clearly a fricated, although further forward than velars in many languages, and might better be called pre-velar.
Free variation in linguistics is the phenomenon of two (or more) sounds or forms appearing in the same environment without a change in meaning and without being considered incorrect by native speakers.
In speech there are different ways of producing a consonant.
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 Alveolar lateral flap -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
The lateral alveolar flap is a type of (A speech sound that is not a vowel) consonantal sound, used in some (Click link for more info and facts about spoken) spoken (A systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols) languages.
It is a (Click link for more info and facts about lateral consonant) lateral consonant, which means it is produced by allowing the airstream to flow over the sides of the tongue, rather than the middle of the tongue.
Its (The sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract) phonation type is voiced, which means the vocal cords are vibrating during the articulation.
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/a/al/alveolar_lateral_flap.htm   (258 words)

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