velarize|velarized|velarizes|velarizing in English
verb velarize (Amer.)
['ve·lar·ize || 'vɪːləraɪz]
(Linguistics) pronounce with the back of the tongue close to the soft palate, enunciate with velar articulation (also velarise)
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1. Lillooet uses it as a secondary feature in contrasting velarized and non-velarized affricates.
2. We've mentioned in class that the English phoneme /l/ has a number of Allophones: the clear 'l' [l], which is a voiced lateral alveolar approximant, as in leap [lip] – this is the usual allophone of /l/ before the vowel nucleus in a syllable; voiceless as in play , the usual allophone of /l/ after a voiceless obstruent; and velarized 'dark l