In London, I worked with a Canadian from Guelph, Ontario who tended to
pronounce 'palm' and 'calm' with an 'l'. I had always assumed that this
was simply a feature of his idiolect (I have never heard it in my native
dialect of Australian English, nor in southern British English), so I was
interested to see your message about it possibly being more widespread.
--
Associate Professor Adam Schembri
Director, National Institute for Deaf Studies and Sign Language
La Trobe University | Melbourne (Bundoora) | Victoria | 3086 | Australia
Tel: +61 3 9479 2887 | Fax: +61 3 9479 3074 | www.latrobe.edu.au/nids
On 12/04/11 7:19 AM, "Aaron Dinkin" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Is anyone aware of any research they could point me toward on the
>pronunciation of words like "calm" and "palm" with a /l/? (I assume this
>is spelling pronunciation, but it just might be a parallel preservation
>of
>an archaic form.) Geographic distribution of the /l/, whether it affects
>all relevant words, anything like that?
>
>-Aaron J. Dinkin
>Dr. Whom
>
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