Metrical/syllabic factors in English allophony: dark /l/.
This paper presents a single-subject case study illustrating the need to closely examine effects of dialect from syllable position on l-colouring, and the effects of domain-initial strengthening in General American English. Most investigators report lighter /l/ tokens in syllable onsets and darker tokens in coda positions in isolated words. The present study demonstrates an enhanced darkened onset /l/ in front vowel prosodic word (PW) boundaries, but lighter codas at PW-internal boundaries. We address the importance for clinicians of recognizing the impact of prosody on restructuring syntactic boundaries and its consequent effects on /l/ articulation.
Oxley
Judith
J
Department of Communicative Disorders, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, LA 70504-3170, USA. odj8147@louisiana.edu
Buckingham
Hugh
H
Roussel
Nancye
N
Daniloff
Raymond
R
D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D010700:Phonetics; D013060:Speech; D013061:Speech Acoustics