Re: Chinese Dialect Question

>I have heard that as well, but it's a more thorough substitution;
>I think the [l]->[j] only happens initially.  In fact, I suppose
>it's possible for children who make that error to simultaneously say [w]
>for final (or "dark") [l].  I don't know, though; I have no memory of
>how I pronounced, e.g., "milk" back then.  I just remember being coached
>with phrases like "Yittle yemon yion".
In the dialect spoken in the east-central Illinois town that I grew up in
(but this is not my own dialect) the postvocalic /l/ allophone is so "dark"
that it has become a [w].  My name back then was Nicole instead of Isidora,
and my best friend's mother pronounced my name "Nicow" [nIk_ko:w].

Someone I knew growing up also had the lion/yion problem for a while.

Isidora

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