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Re: Lateral/vowel coarticulation

From:Garth Wallace <gwalla@...>
Date:Monday, February 16, 2009, 1:35
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Eric Christopherson <rakko@...> wrote:
> > 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?
I suppose it could. But I'm able to pronounce stops with lateral release, and the vowels that follow don't sound different from "normal" vowels, any more than vowels following /l/.