postvocalic /l/

[ronbutters at AOL.COM]

Read what Charlie wrote. The teacher is a Southerner. The students are poor kids from the Mississippi Delta. The pronunciations I gave are for Southerners. Your response is totally irrelevant to the speech of the people in question.
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From: Mark Mandel
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Subject: Re: [ADS-L] postvocalic /l/
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With low back neutralization ("caught" = "cot"), the only difference would
be the vocalized "l" ... if that were present at all.

m a m

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:58 AM, <ronbutters at aol.com> wrote:

> But wouldn't "brawl" sound more like "brow" than "bra"? And semantics would
> play a role: " brawl" is a word that I'd expect many 7-year-olds would not
> know.
>
>

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