Re: Rating Languages
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 27, 2001, 9:25 |
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At 17:27 2001-09-26 -0400, David Peterson wrote:
> Huh... Now that I go back, I have velar "l" just about everywhere, even
>in initial position, such as with the word "laugh" [L&f]. Sounds like
>"ullaugh", in English orthography. Ah! I got it. Alveolar [l] only occurs
>before +front, -low vowels in my English, that's it. In fact, I can get it
>before [E], too, though either is fine...
Many Americans have only velar /l/, sayeth the textbook on English founetiks.
/BP 8^)>
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