postvocalic /l/

[Mark Mandel]

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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