velarized /l/ and Billy Holiday

[Laurence Horn]

At 3:04 PM +0000 3/6/09, ronbutters at aol.com wrote:
>In addition to the velarization,  it seems to me that one also gets
>labialization--in this case the failure to terminate the
>lip-rounding of the previous vowel, but also in keeping with e.g.
>the pronunciation of APPLE as /aepo/, LITTLE as /lito/, etc.

Or /aepu/, /wiDu/ (somehow the vocalization of the /l/ at the end of
the latter seems to want to be accompanied by that at the beginning,
hence "widdoo").

By the way, the general rule is operative--the second different
poster (not Ron) gets the correction, so:  Billie Holiday, not Billy.

LH

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