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Re: Furrin phones in my own lect!

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Wednesday, March 29, 2006, 16:52
On 3/29/06, Joe <joe@...> wrote:
> Scots and North Americans use only [5].
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. -- Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>

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