Uvular /l/ (Was: velarized /l/ again)

[Herb Stahlke]

This is probably picky, but the ambiguity may arise from the
limitations of email text.  IPA avoids upper case characters but uses
several small cap symbols, including small cap B, G, N, L, R, inverted
R, I, and Y.  I've frequently found students who simply didn't
recognize the upper case/small cap distinction, and I couldn't get
them to transcribe with the correct IPA symbols.

Herb

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:46 PM, Neal Whitman <nwhitman at ameritech.net> wrote:
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> Some people use a different gesture involving the back of their tongue to
> make an /l/: a uvular nasal consonant. (It's represented as [N] in IPA,
> which unfortunately is ambiguous here, since [N] is also SAMPA for the velar
> nasal.) I wrote about in a couple of short posts:
> http://literalminded.wordpress.com/2006/05/21/totally-uvular/
> http://literalminded.wordpress.com/2007/01/10/lsa-2007-l-and-s-at-the/
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> Neal Whitman
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>> Wilson mentioned in the previous thread that /l/ tends not to be
>> velarized in AAE, at least certainly not as much in other AmE
>> varieties.  I've noticed this week the word "colleague" pronounced on
>> TV by two African Americans, one I think an Olympic track athlete in a
>> cell phone ad and the other Ice T on Law and Order SVU.  Both
>> pronounced the /l/ without velarization and clearly the onset of the
>> second syllable.  In my speech the /l/ is ambisyllabic, begins
>> velarized and ends unvelarized.
>>
>> Herb
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