Polish L
Steven Hill
s-hill4 at UIUC.EDU
Wed May 5 19:12:57 UTC 2004
Concerning the Polish "hard L" and its modern realization as [ W ]:
Note also, in many varieties of English (including a standard variety), what
happened to the L in certain words like TALK, WALK, STALK, BALK, CAULK:
[ tawk ], [ wawk ], [ stawk ], [ bawk ], [ cawk ].
I suppose anyone teaching contemporary Polish to English-speakers could
cite examples from English like the above, to help make the point about
what happens to Polish "hard L" (or "barred L").
-- Steven P Hill (Univ. of Illinois (USA).
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