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Re: Lateral/vowel coarticulation

From:Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...>
Date:Wednesday, February 18, 2009, 20:08
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. ... brought to you by the Weeping Elf

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