Re: / / vs [ ]

Philip Newton <Philip.Newton@...> writes:

[snip]

(Then there's
> also "broad" and "narrow" phonetic representation, depending on how
> much detail you go into in phonetic representation.) Or the /l/ which
> is different in <lick> and <bell> ("dark" and "light" <l>, but I'm not
> sure which is which).
the /l/ in /lIk/ is light and the /l/ in /bEl/ is dark or velarized, at least this
is how I understand it. The dark /l/ sometimes has the tendency to become
/w/...when I speak very very rapidly.

Elliott