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Articulatory and perceptual factors in /l/ vocalisations in English

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ID2110210
AuthorsWilliam J Hardcastle (University of Reading, corresponding author), William Hardcastle, William Barry, William J Barry (0000-0003-2692-0254, University of Reading)
Year1989
Volume15
Issue2
Pages3-17
Publication date1989-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of the International Phonetic Association (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0025-1003 • E-ISSN: 1475-3502
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0025100300002930
OpenAlexW2075027230
LanguageEN
Citations received22
References cited4

In several dialects of English notably in the southern part of Britain (but excluding Wales), a velarised or "dark" allophone of /l/ occurs syllable-finally, and post-vocalically in syllable-final consonant clusters (Wells 1982; Gimson 1980). A variant of this velarised [l], typically associated with Cockney, but increasingly admitted as a feature of South-Eastern Urban English, is a "vowelised" or vocalised form realised as a non-syllabic back vocoid (approximately [Y] or a rounded equivalent [ö] or [ʊ] (Wells 1982; Hughes and Trudgill 1986)). Thus "milk" may be realised variously as [mIlk], [mIYk], [mIök] or [mIʊk

Consonant · Consonant cluster · Feature (linguistics · Linguistics · Perception · Syllabic verse · Syllable · Vowel · Lexicography and Language Studies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology

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Citation span1991 - 2026 (36)
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