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/l/ VARIATION IN AMERICAN ENGLISH: A CORPUS APPROACH
We investigated the variation of /l/ in a large speech corpus through forced alignment. The results demonstrated that there is a categorical distinction between dark and light /l/ in American English. /l/ in syllable onset is light, and /l/ in syllable coda is dark. Intervocalic /l/ can be either light or dark, depending on the stress of the vowels. There is a correlation between duration (the ...
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We investigated the variation of /l/ in a large speech corpus through forced alignment. The results demonstrated that there is a categorical distinction between dark and light /l/ in American English. /l/ in syllable onset is light, and /l/ in syllable coda is dark. Intervocalic /l/ can be either light or dark, depending on the stress of the vowels. There is a correlation between duration (the ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Speech Sciences
سال: 2021
ISSN: 2236-9740
DOI: 10.20396/joss.v1i2.15025