Re: NATLANG: Interdental /l/ - in ENGLISH

Emily Zilch wrote:
> I'm sticking another edited Linglist post here because it is something
> I figure this list might appreciate.
>
> Incidentally, upon investigation I have this phoneme! I'm still working
> out where and when it exists, but I do have it. I wonder two things:
> - is it more common in female speech?
> - i am from southern new england, so who has this phoneme?
>
> finally, should/when part 2 appears, would anyone like me to post it
> on-list? let me know.
Yes, please do, or at least give the URL so we can look.
>
> Some weeks ago I posted a query about a possible interdental
> realisation of /l/ in the speech of young females from the West Coast
> of the USA (Linguist 15.1675). An identical post was made on the
> American Dialect Society List (ADS-L).
>
(snip)  Very interesting. I'm 70 yrs old, lived in a lot of places around
the country tho never the west coast..., training in phonetics, but not a
lot of recent observation-- I've never encountered it.  I'd have to see it
to believe it.  It seems very awkward to produce, esp. in the cited phrase
"law school" which surely calls for the velarized [l] in most dialects!!

Must confess, I'm not given to watching Britney Spears et al.
videos.........

I do recall seeing a schoolmate, years ago, produce a definitely
stick-out-your-tongue [T] when enunciating the name "Thayer" to his father,
who was hard of hearing, but that's exceptional of course.