Haeyoung Lee

Front/non-front asymmetry in word-final English /l/-velarization: Evidence from preceding-vowel frontness*

This study reanalyzes the acoustic data from the author’s doctoral dissertation, examining whether the acoustic endpoint of English word-final /l/-velarization varies with the frontness of the preceding vowel. The original study observed that /l/ following front vowels (/i:, e, eɪ/) converges toward a schwa-like region...