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On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 12:04 AM, Adam Schembri
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> Wow. Anything other than /pam/ and /kam/ sounds strange to my Australian
> and lived-in-southern-England ears: I had no idea the l-ful pronunciation
> was so widely acquired natively in North American English, and not simply
> a spelling-influenced pronunciation.
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> On 12/04/11 1:46 PM, "Helene Neu" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>I grew up in Southern California. The pronunciation /pam/ still sounds
>>strange to me; I use a backed "a" in both words as well as a vocalized
>>/l/.
>>
>>Helene Neu
>>Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
>>The University of Michigan
>>Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1275
>>
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>>On Apr 11, 2011, at 11:00 PM, Gregory R Guy wrote:
>>
>>> I have /l/ in both calm and palm, natively. I grew up in Philly, so my
>>>/l/ is a little vocalized, but it's still /l/. The [kam] pronunciation
>>>is alien to me.
>>>
>>> Gregory R. Guy
>>> Department of Linguistics
>>> New York University
>>>
>>> "It is only through an analysis of variation that the reality and
>>>meaning of a norm can be established at all." -Edward Sapir, 1938
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: Aaron Dinkin <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Date: Monday, April 11, 2011 5:19 pm
>>> Subject: Calm, palm, etc.?
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>>
>>>> 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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