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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
wrote:
> I assure you. I say ['lArn] with an alveolar flap.
How? That's a serious question. I can easily manage ['lær@...],
with an alveolar flap, or ['lædn.], with nasal release of the
[d] making it sound very much like the alveolar flap, but I
don't see how you get true flapping without at least a bit of
a vowel in the second syllable.
Brian