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Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Wed Aug 13 18:55:50 UTC 2003


>In some dialects /l/ is added after a vowel for liaison before another
>vowel (as /r/ is in other dialects).  Our secretary regularly says "I
>saw(l) it," for example, and many of my South Midland students say
>"draw(l)ing."  When we talk about this in class, I always cite the guy on
>Saturday Night Live who used to sit in his bathtub "draw(r)ing
>pictures."  (Name?  All I can think of is Austin Powers!)

mike myers



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