Date:  Fri, 27 Oct 1995 11:03:33 EDT

From:  Larry Horn <LHORN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU>

Subject: Re: folk/folklore



Like Natalie, I don't pronounce the first syllable of 'folklore' differently

from the way I pronounce 'folk' (and I also wondered whether there might be

some anticipation of/assimilation to the L of the next syllable, but from what

Wayne says that's not the case for him, given the way the L of folk reappears

in other compounds). The [fok] pronunciation I have in all of those is clearly

a lexical and not just a low-level phonetic matter, since I standardly refer to

the cars as VoLkswagens and not [vok]swagens (or not necessarily, anyway: I

imagine the L might indeed disappear in fast speech, but the L of 'folk',

'folklore' doesn't appear now matter how much I slow down. I have a feeling

there's also an L in Folkestone, if I ever had the occasion to say it.



Larry