Date:  Thu, 17 Jul 1997 19:26:06 -0400
From:  "(Dale F. Coye)" <Dfcoye[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM>
Subject: pre-consonantal /l/ in AAVE

I was listening to a presentation on grant writing yesterday and the
presenter, a highly educated African-American, used /l/-less forms in words
like film, milk, but what surprised me was that the word "results" sounded
almost like "resorts," that is, the /l/ was getting /r/-like somehow. Does
anyone know more about this?

Dale Coye
Princeton, NJ