ABSTRACT
This chapter explains about the lateral, rolled, and flapped consonants. The lateral, rolled, and flapped consonants are treated as separate chapter because of the peculiar nature of certain varieties of these sounds found in African languages, and their relation to each other. Lateral consonants are formed by stopping the air passage in the middle of the mouth and allowing it to escape along one or both sides of the tongue. The stoppage is effected generally by placing the tip of the tongue on the teeth-ridge or teeth: it can also be made by placing the curled-up tip of the tongue on some part of the hard palate, or by pressing the front of the tongue against the hard palate. Rolled lingual occurs in many languages, in Italian, Russian, Spanish, in some dialects of German, and in Scottish. The normal rolled lingual of southern English is a fricative, not a rolled consonant.
