I grew up in upstate NY, but have lived in the South Pacific and Texas
mostly. I find the l-full and l-less pronunciations equally OK and know I
have produced both. I'm saying this because NY borders Ontario and there was
a question about a possible isogloss.
Also I looked on line, Googling L in CALM, DIALECT, PRONUNCIATION, and got
some American Dialect Society chat boards, but nothing published that I
could find.
FWIW,
~b
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From: "Adam Schembri" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 6:51 PM
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: [VAR-L] Calm, palm, etc.?
> 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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