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I ran into a similar issue a few years back when looking at population numbers for (Central) Okinawan. The Ethnologue gave a figure of 980,000 speakers in 2000, which doesn't make sense given that the total population was roughly 1 million around that time and it's well-known that the islanders pri...

/pʰ tʰ tʷʰ cʰ kʰ kʷʰ/ ⟨ph, th, čh, ch, chu⟩ /p t tʷ c k kʷ/ ⟨p, t, tu, č, c, cu⟩ /ʔb ʔd ʔdʷ ʔɟ ʔg ʔgʷ ʔ/ ⟨hb, hd, hdu, hǧ, hg, hgu, Ø ⟩ /ⁿb ⁿd ⁿdʷ ⁿɟ ⁿg ⁿgʷ/ ⟨b, d, du, ǧ, g, gu⟩ /s sʷ x xʷ h/ ⟨s, su, k, ku, x⟩ /ⁿz ⁿzʷ/ ⟨z, zu⟩ /l lʷ r rʷ j w/ ⟨l, lu, r, ru, i, u⟩ /m n nʷ ŋ ŋʷ/ ⟨m, n, nu, ň, ňu⟩ /ħ ...

When I was learning to speak as a child, for a while my parents noticed I would vocalise /l/ in coda positions, and they assumed I would stop doing it once I got a little older. That never happened. Funnily enough, my mother once told me I used to vocalise these /l/'s as a kid when I was in high sc...

I'm from the West Coast, but I haven't noticed this as a particular feature of the region's accents. I'm not particularly phonetically knowledgeable or observant, though. Nevertheless, I think in the "How do you pronounce" thread, people not from the West Coast, like Travis, have mentioned non-coro...

Living in California, I have recently noticed an interesting feature about the West Coast (especially Californian) American English dialect, I am unaware if this occurs anywhere else in the U.S. The phoneme /ʟ/ commonly occurs as an allophone of /l/, especially when next to a velar consonant. It see...

Are you referring to ice cream that is two flavors? If so, here on the west coast we do not have a name for that.