Re: Furrin phones in my own lect!
| From: | Joe <joe@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, March 29, 2006, 17:17 |
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Mark J. Reed wrote:
>On 3/29/06, Joe <joe@...> wrote:
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>>Scots and North Americans use only [5].
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>Nooooo... not at all. /l/ becomes [5] only postvocalically. Initial
>/l/ is still [l]. The word "look" is [lUk], not *[5Uk], which sounds
>really bizarre.
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Ah, point taken. Although it is the case in some, if not most Scottish
dialects. (As an example, see Charles Kennedy, ex-leader of the Liberal
Democrats in the UK).