Re: Lateral/vowel coarticulation

On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 23:00:36 -0600, Eric Christopherson
<rakko@...> wrote:
>
>On Feb 16, 2009, at 12:59 PM, Jeffrey Jones wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 19:14:54 -0600, Eric Christopherson
>> <rakko@...> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi, folks. I've been wondering for a long time if any languages
>>> feature coarticulation of laterals (e.g. /l/) and vowels. I seem to
>>> be able to produce these, and they sound somewhat distinct, although
>>> not as distinct as other vowels; but I've searched and never found
>>> any mention of this occurring in natural languages (either phonemicly
>>> or allophonicly).
>>
>>> However (and this is what prompted me to ask this now), I was just
>>> reading about Hmong, and it has labials and dentals with (dental)
>>> lateral release. I have never heard a consonant with lateral release;
>>> would the vowel following a consonant with lateral release sound like
>>> what I described above?
>>
>> Not for the typical /tK)/ type sound.
>
>That's not a case of lateral release, AFAIK.
It isn't? [K] is lateral and it serves as the release of [t] here ... online
materials don't seem to be helpful here.

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