Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The palatal lateral approximant is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is 〈ʎ〉, a rotated lowercase letter 〈y〉 (not to be confused with lowercase lambda, 〈λ〉), and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is L.Many languages that were previously thought to have a palatal lateral approximant, actually have a lateral approximant that is, broadly, alveolo-palatal; that is to say, it is articulated at a place in-between the alveolar ridge and the hard palate (excluded), and it may be variously described as alveolo-palatal, lamino-postalveolar, or postalveolo-prepalatal. Of 13 languages investigated by Recasens (2013), many of them Romance, none possess a 'true' palatal. This is likely the case for several other languages listed here. Some languages, like Portuguese and Catalan, have a lateral approximant that varies between alveolar and alveolo-palatal.There is no dedicated symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents the alveolo-palatal lateral approximant. If precision is desired, it may be transcribed 〈l̠ʲ〉 or 〈ʎ̟〉; these are essentially equivalent, because the contact includes both the blade and body (but not the tip) of the tongue. There is also a non-IPA letter 〈ȴ〉, used especially in Sinological circles.. }
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- Palatal_lateral_approximant abstract "The palatal lateral approximant is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is 〈ʎ〉, a rotated lowercase letter 〈y〉 (not to be confused with lowercase lambda, 〈λ〉), and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is L.Many languages that were previously thought to have a palatal lateral approximant, actually have a lateral approximant that is, broadly, alveolo-palatal; that is to say, it is articulated at a place in-between the alveolar ridge and the hard palate (excluded), and it may be variously described as alveolo-palatal, lamino-postalveolar, or postalveolo-prepalatal. Of 13 languages investigated by Recasens (2013), many of them Romance, none possess a 'true' palatal. This is likely the case for several other languages listed here. Some languages, like Portuguese and Catalan, have a lateral approximant that varies between alveolar and alveolo-palatal.There is no dedicated symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents the alveolo-palatal lateral approximant. If precision is desired, it may be transcribed 〈l̠ʲ〉 or 〈ʎ̟〉; these are essentially equivalent, because the contact includes both the blade and body (but not the tip) of the tongue. There is also a non-IPA letter 〈ȴ〉, used especially in Sinological circles.".