Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 08:52:19 -0800 From: Dan Moonhawk Alford Subject: Re: fillim Growing up in a port-town of Los Angeles, Wilmington, I had a next-door neighbor from Missouri who said both 'fillum' and 'bullub' when talking about photographic equipment. Sounds like consonant-cluster reduction to me! On Wed, 1 Nov 1995, SETH SKLAREY wrote: > I have two acquaintances who pronounce film with two syllables as > fillim or fillum. One blames his Irish roots and the other is > from New York and has a Jewish background. Does anyone have an > explanation as to a causal connection for either of these? > > Seth Sklarey > > > > >David Rojas writes: > >----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > >After the /I/ in 'milk', 'silk', and 'film', I do pronounce the /l/ before the > >final consonant; however, in /a/ words such as 'balm', 'calm', 'balk', 'talk', > >'walk', etc, I think I never pronounce the /l/ before the final consonant. > >I would like to get some feedback on the distribution of this pronunciation > >"rule" that I seem to express. D M Rojas (drojas1[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ua1vm.ua.edu) > >------------------------------------------------- > >Yes, that's consistent with a number of us who report operating with* a > >regular distinction between non-back vowels, after which the L is pronounced > >([I] as in milk and film, [E] as in elm, [AE] as in talc (= talcum) and calc > >(= calculus), and schwa as in hulk and sulk) and (some) back vowels, after > >which it isn't (open o as in balk and talk, [a] as in balm and calm). For me, > >as mentioned, [o] sometimes wipes out the following L (as in the 'folk' words > >and 'yolk') and sometimes doesn't (Polk, Volks(wagen), Tolk ['Tolkien groupie'] > >and so on). > > > >Larry > > > >*at least in my case; I probably shouldn't generalize > > > > >