Re: OT: YAEPT: English low vowels (was briefly: Re: Y/N variants (< OT: English a...

I'm a North American English speaker (of the Midwestern variety). I pronounce the
"l" in such words (I've never heard otherwise 'round these parts).
> Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 04:57:29 +0100> From: daniel@RYAN-PROHASKA.COM> Subject:
> Re: YAEPT: English low vowels (was briefly: Re: Y/N variants (< OT: English
> a...> To: CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu> > I think I've heard some North
> American English speakers pronounce the [l] in> <palm> and <calm>. Can anyone
> confirm this? Is this a reading pronunciation?> Dan> > -----Original
> Message-----> From: Mark J. Reed> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 12:32 AM>
> "The word "palm" is not the best exemplar of the sound intended to be>
> represented by the PALM lexical set, unfortunately. Many speakers IME,>
> myself included, actually pronounce the L in palm and similar words, at>
> least sort of - the vowel gets L-colored the way rhotic vowels are>
> R-colored. I use the name PALM because that's Wells's name and it's nice> to
> have a standard, but what I really mean is "the stressed vowel in> 'father'".
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