Re: Californian vowels [was Re: Liking German]
| From: | David Peterson <digitalscream@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, September 29, 2001, 0:19 |
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In a message dated 9/28/01 4:43:10 PM, exponent@TECHNOLOGIST.COM writes:
<< No, I'm not Southern Californian, but I know an acquaintance who has
the very annoying speech impediment of pronouncing the word "milk"
as /mELk/ (with velar l) >>
Well, of course it's velar [L], but you can honestly tell the difference
between [mELk] and [mILk]? So, if I recorded, say, twenty instances of both
and mixed them up, you would be able to tell one from the other? Hmm...
-David
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