Re: YAEPT alert! [Re: Not phonetic but ___???]

At 20:22 15.4.2004, Mark J. Reed wrote:
>On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 01:42:55PM -0400, jcowan@REUTERSHEALTH.COM wrote:
> > > Ah.  What about the [l] in PALM?  Is that also part of the distinction?
> >
> > No.  Do you actually articulate any [l] there?
>
>In careful speech, yes.  Otherwise, there seems to be a sort of
>l-coloring (palatalization?) of the vowel, analogous to r-coloring.  For
That's probably why Wells replaced PALM with FATHER in the LPD.

At 18:06 15.4.2004, jcowan@REUTERSHEALTH.COM wrote:

>Other people playing with the set should note that the [j] in "cure" is
>not part of the common factor; IMHO this keyword is poorly chosen:
>POOR would have been better.
There ought to be a keyword CUTE, since this sound varies
between /ju/ and /iw/, and is arguably a diphthong.


/BP 8^)
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