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Re: tSat: Re: 'tEst 'pli:z ig'nOr\

From:Eric Christopherson <rakko@...>
Date:Thursday, February 1, 2007, 3:50
On Jan 31, 2007, at 7:52 PM, Mark J. Reed wrote:

> I can't really compare "off" and "all" because the vowel in the > latter is > too, er, lateralized. My subjective belief as the articulator is > that > "off", "all", and "are" are variants of the same underlying vowel > quality, > just dipthongalized by the liquids, but it's hard to be sure. > > On 1/31/07, veritosproject@gmail.com <veritosproject@...> wrote: >> >> quote:You pronounce "off" with the same vowel as "all"? I thought >> that was >> something only old people with broad Australian or Cockney accents >> did. I suppose in America, most bets are "orf" too. >> >> PNW here, and i say [af] and [al]. >>
I've often wondered about lateralized vowels or vowel-lateral coarticulation. I've never heard of an actual language that uses them (distinctly from normal vowels at least), but it seems easy to me to produce them.