Re: Rating Languages
| From: | David Peterson <digitalscream@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, September 26, 2001, 21:28 |
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In a message dated 9/26/01 12:28:51 PM, dan@FEUCHARD.FSNET.CO.UK writes:
<< > Who wrote this? If you're a native English speaker, we've got a
velar
> "l" just about everywhere except word-initially, non?
a) I'm not a native English speaker. I was a French monoglot until I was
six.
b) No, my idiolect doesn't have velar "l". >>
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...
-David
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