Lateral release (phonetics)
- 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 tongue made separate contacts with the alveolar ridge for the /t/ and /l/ (IPA| [ˈbɒtəl̩] ), many speakers today make only one tongue contact. That is, the /t/ is laterally released directly into the /l/: IPA| [ˈbɒtˡl̩] .
While this is a minor phonetic detail in English, and indeed in most languages where it occurs, lateral release is contrastive in a few cases. One of these is in Qatari Arabic, where an /l/ is reduced to lateral release after /d/, which in turn becomes laminal, as in /dlaal/ IPA| [d̻ˡaːl] 'coffee pots'. ["Principles of Phonetics," p. 361. John Laver, Cambridge University Press, 1994.]
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