Re: Lateral/vowel coarticulation
| From: | Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, February 18, 2009, 20:08 |
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Hallo!
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:41:13 -0800, Garth Wallace wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:18 PM, Eric Christopherson <rakko@...>
> wrote:
> > On Feb 17, 2009, at 11:29 AM, Roger Mills wrote:
> >
> >> Not sure what you're getting at here. Do you mean [l+V] or [V+l]? In
> >> Engl.
> >> [l+V] has no audible affect on the V, though the [l] varies
> >> ("bright/dental
> >> vs. dark/velarized") depending on front/back V. Could it be that you're
> >> velarizing your [l]s?
> >
> > No; I was talking about just trying to pronounce e.g. [l] at the same time
> > as I pronounce an approximation of [a]. I only do so when experimenting
> > (not
> > while speaking English).
>
> I can kind of do that with [a] and [@], but it doesn't seem to do
> anything to other vowels.
It works with other vowels as well. It needs some practice,
but it works - you can pronounce [l] simultaneously with *any*
vowel, and you do get an audible difference. While I don't
know of any natlang that uses such phonemes, one of my conlangs
(Madeirese, an Albic language of the Macaronesian subbranch
- not yet worked out in detail beyond phonology yet, though)
does.
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