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For English laterals the active articulator is the tongue tip or the tongue blade, which makes a closure at the alveolar ridge.
Laterals are produced with a dental place of articulation when the next sound is also dental. Laterals combined with [θ] regularly have a dental articulation: ‘heath’, ‘weath’, ‘stea’. Across word boundaries, too, laterals can be produced with a dental place of articulation as in ‘all the people’,