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Sorry, the /l/ of *palm* and *calm* is not dark, just vocalized, I think. Rebecca On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 11:06 PM, Rebecca Greene <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > Here is me saying *pom-palm com-calm wok-walk tok-talk* in my Eastern > Kentucky dialect. The second in each pair has a vocalized dark /l/, sounds > like to me. > > Rebecca > > > On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:42 PM, David Bowie <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> Well, assuming the person hearing me also had the cot-caught distinction, >> i'd be fine. The fact that i produce [l] in that word would just be a bonus. >> >> -- >> David Bowie >> >> >> On 11/Apr/11 8:01 PM, Angus B. Grieve-Smith wrote: >> >>> On 4/11/2011 11:46 PM, Helene Neu wrote: >>> >>>> 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/. >>>> >>> >>> So there are a lot of people on this list who wouldn't be thrown off an >>> airplane for asking "Did you put the balm in the bag we checked?" >>> >>> >> ######################################################################## >> >> The Variationist List - discussion of everything related to variationist >> sociolinguistics. >> >> To send messages to the VAR-L list (subscribers only), write to: >> [log in to unmask] >> >> To unsubscribe from the VAR-L list, click the following link: >> http://jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=VAR-L&A=1 >> > > ######################################################################## The Variationist List - discussion of everything related to variationist sociolinguistics. To send messages to the VAR-L list (subscribers only), write to: [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe from the VAR-L list, click the following link: http://jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=VAR-L&A=1