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The phonological nature of /l/ in European Portuguese (EP) and its acquisition by monolingual Portuguese children have been discussed by researchers and clinicians over the last years. The main goals of this paper are to offer a description of /l/ in recent acquisition data stored in Ramalho-EP (success rates and repair strategies) and to discuss the different phonological representations proposed for /l/ in EP, by using our data and other acquisition data available in the literature. Results show an effect of syllable complexity in the acquisition of /l/ (the trend Simple Onset >> Coda >> Complex Onset was attested), although /l/ is not acquired in any of the syllable constituents (success rates below 76%). The preference for the repair segments [w, υ] was interpreted as empirical evidence for the processing of /l/ as [+continuant], as proposed by Mateus e Andrade (2000) and against Amorim e Veloso (2021). Moreover, these variants and the late acquisition of /l/ favor the use of [+approximant] to represent /l/ in EP, the feature proposed by Amorim e Veloso (2021) to replace [+lateral] in the phonological system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]