On Apr 12 2011, Katie Carmichael wrote:
>Question for the l-ful palm/balm speakers: do you also pronounce the /l/ in
>walk, talk, folk, etc? An l-ful palm/balm doesn't seem too odd to me (in
>fact I'm pretty sure I can pronounce those words either way--Northern
>Virginia native), but I have a colleague from North Carolina with l-ful
>walk, talk, folk (like Rebecca's) and that sounded really foreign to me the
>first time I heard it.
I definitely produce /l/ in folk - it's one of the few SW England traces I
have. I grew up in Plymouth, but weird family circumstances + speech
therapy due to late onset/twin-gabbling talk means I actually have very
little of the region's features. Calm/palm I'm less sure about - I probably
vary. It certainly doesn't feel unnatural producing it. The folk /l/ is
much stronger.
Stuart
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