Re: Velar Laterals (was: Yet another ASCII-IPA scheme...)
| From: | Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, November 11, 2001, 23:33 |
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On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, David Peterson wrote:
> We do have these things in English, you know--and by that, I mean in the
> word "English" [iNgLIS]. When I pronounce it (throughout the whole word,
> mind you), my tongue tip is literally touching the gum beneath my lower teeth
> and it never moves.
A dialectal thing, I guess: I have [INglIS], a completely normal [l]. But
my question is: how do you get an [S] without moving your tongue?
Tristan
anstouh@yahoo.com.au