Date:  Tue, 8 Apr 1997 18:00:25 -0400
<br>From:  Beverly Flanigan  FLANIGAN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OUVAXA.CATS.OHIOU.EDU 
<br>Subject: Re: Intrusive L (was Re: ADS-L Digest)
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<br>  A further note on intrusive 'l': I have a graduate student from Athens
<br>  County who not only said 'draw(l)ing' as a child but also said/says
<br>  'grandmawl'--and wrote it that way (or 'grammal' perhaps, since
<br>  southern Ohio has open O)* until his teacher corrected it. But he
<br>  agreed with me that it is a dark l--at least word-finally, if not
<br>  medially (and I'll withhold comment on that one yet). It seems to be
<br>  the very same 'l' that is vocalized in Philadelphia and Baltimore (I
<br>  recall not understanding my mother-in-law from Balto when she
<br>  pronounced 'ball' and 'oil'--the latter was 'aw(l)' with no [l].
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<br>  *This sound in Southern Ohio is not really open O but is midway between
<br>  [a] and [O], close to the British low back vowel (upside down or
<br>  backward [a]?). The spelling of 'mamaw' and 'papaw' reflects the same
<br>  low back /a/.
<br>                    Beverly Flanigan
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