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Iwanttofly4 Posted 16 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation

Dark l or light l?

What should the l in 'all over' sound like?
  

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Well, the notion of dark l is a very poor concept to capture what's going on, esp accent reducton specialists enter the fray. Here, /l/ gets geminated: the first one becoming vocalized /l/, the second one retaining consonant sound. It is called sonorant gemination.

  • Well, the notion of dark l is a very poor concept to capture what's going on, esp accent reducton specialists enter the fray.
  • Here, /l/ gets geminated: the first one becoming vocalized /l/, the second one retaining consonant sound.
  • It is called sonorant gemination.
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Well, the notion of dark l is a very poor concept to capture what's going on, esp accent reducton specialists enter the fray. Here, /l/ gets geminated: the first one becoming vocalized /l/, the second one retaining consonant sound.

It is called sonorant gemination.

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