Iwanttofly4 Posted 16 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation
Dark l or light l?
What should the l in 'all over' sound like?
Top answer
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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It is called sonorant gemination.
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