Re: Practicing pronounciation; consonant clusters

Arthaey Angosii wrote:
> > > That reminds me, I still need to go pronounce what I trascribe as
> > > [ml~)] (Asha'ille |ml|) to my linguistics professor, to she if she
> > > has a better IPA transcription suggestion...(snip)
> The best way I can think to describe it more is thus: Start by saying
> a dark /l/. Now, while doing your dark-l business, bring your lips
> together for the /m/. When you separate your lips while continuing the
> /l/, you'll have the sound I mean. (Instructions tested on
> unsuspecting non-conlanger boyfriend. *grin*)
>
I was trying it slightly differently: close the lips as for [m],
simultaneously put the tongue in position for dark [l]. Then start voicing.
This produces an audibly different sound than plain [m], of course because
the resonating chamber in the mouth has a different shape. Putting it into
the flow of speech, e.g. "a[ml~]a" seems to produce either a nasalized l+m
or m(b)l release but with a little work I managed to release both
articulators at the same time. Is this what you had in mind?

Not so strangely, I suppose, if you close the lips for [m] but put the
tongue in position for [n] or [N], you simply get [n]/[N]; the closed lips
don't seem to matter.

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