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Re: Californian vowels [was Re: Liking German]

From:D Tse <exponent@...>
Date:Sunday, September 30, 2001, 10:52
Andreas Johansson <and_yo@H...> wrote:

> Muke Tever wrote: > >* Because I am neurotic I'm using [5] which is X-SAMPA's dark l
symbol
> >instead of [L], which everyone else is using. > > The X-SAMPA .pdf assigns {[L]} to the sound symbolized by an up-
side-down
> "y" in IPA. What sound is this? > > Andreas
Lateral palatal approximant, like _gli_ in Italian [Li] or _ella_ in Castellano [eLa]. Though personally I think that the possibly more used "dark l" ([5] in x-sampa) should get that symbol :) Imperative