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Mr. Wookiee Posted 16 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation
The 'L' in feel and feeling
I know the L in feel is pronounced as a velarized or dark L
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velarized_alveolar_lateral_approximant
Which is different from the 'light' L in words like: lamb or lion.
And I also know that you can easily determine weather to pronounce the L as light or dark by looking at its position in the syllable: L is pronounced as light whenever it's at the beginning of a syllable, for example in lion \'la?-?n\, and as dark when it's at the end of the syllable like in feel \'fi??\
But I am not sure about the phonetic syllabication of feeling. Is it fee-ling \'fi?-l??\? which would produce a light L because it is at the beginning of a syllable. Or is it feel-ing \'fi????\? with the L-sound at the end of the first syllable producing a dark L.
Please help me out. Thank you in advance.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velarized_alveolar_lateral_approximant
Which is different from the 'light' L in words like: lamb or lion.
And I also know that you can easily determine weather to pronounce the L as light or dark by looking at its position in the syllable: L is pronounced as light whenever it's at the beginning of a syllable, for example in lion \'la?-?n\, and as dark when it's at the end of the syllable like in feel \'fi??\
But I am not sure about the phonetic syllabication of feeling. Is it fee-ling \'fi?-l??\? which would produce a light L because it is at the beginning of a syllable. Or is it feel-ing \'fi????\? with the L-sound at the end of the first syllable producing a dark L.
Please help me out. Thank you in advance.
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" When I say it, the first syllable ends in a soft l sound. So I say it slightly differently than the recording here. com/browse/feeling
- " When I say it, the first syllable ends in a soft l sound.
- So I say it slightly differently than the recording here.
- com/browse/feeling
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Hi;
I pronounce the word feeling with the second syllable beginning with a strong 'l' sound as in "light" and "lion." When I say it, the first syllable ends in a soft l sound. So I say it slightly differently than the recording here.
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I pronounce the word feeling with the second syllable beginning with a strong 'l' sound as in "light" and "lion." When I say it, the first syllable ends in a soft l sound. So I say it slightly differently than the recording here.
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How about other words that have a pronunciation that normally ends in an L-sound but have an extra syllable added to the end? For example: normal - normalize, oral - orally, battle -battling, deal - dealing, reveal - revealing? Which form of L would you use in these examples?
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