North American /l/ both darkens and lightens depending on morphological constituency and segmental context
It is uncontroversial that, in many varieties of English, the realization of /l/ varies depending on whether /l/ occurs word-initially or word-finally. The nature of this effect, however, remains controversial. Previous analyses alternately analyzed the variation as darkening or lightening, and alte...
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| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2018-08-01
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| Series: | Laboratory Phonology |
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| Online Access: | https://www.journal-labphon.org/articles/104 |