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Re: OT: "Claw" (was "I'm new at this")

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Monday, November 25, 2002, 21:33
On Monday 25 November 2002 8:03 pm, you wrote:
> David Peterson wrote: > >Replying to Christophe: > > I know this's not addressed to me, but I couldn't resist mentioning a > couple of points ... > > >All right, we've got to get this straight, because the pronunciation which > >you're saying is normal, I would claim could never exist in any dialect of > >English in any part of the world ever. Let me make sure we're not > > getting any wires crossed here: > > > >1.) First, we're talking about the word "claw", which is usually the paw > > of an animal which has with sharp nails. > > > >2.) [A] is a low, back, unrounded vowel, and [aw] is a front, low, > >unrounded > >vowel followed by a labio-velar glide (or some sort of high, back, rounded > >coda), forming a diphthong. > > > >3.) The word "clod" has [A] ([k_h5A:d]), and the word "cloud" has [aw] > >([k_h5aw:d]). > > Are velarized /l/ really that omnipresent? I know that RP I learnt in > school is kinda out-dated, but is non-velarized /l/ really totally dead? >
Hmm..well, speaking an RP-ish ideolect, I'd say that alveolar /l/ is alive and well. However, David Peterson obviously has screwy English ( just kidding).

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