American English Pronunciation Workbook
Examples of the Consonant [l]
Word Initial
1.
[leɪɾɚ]
and if a person murders somebody they need they'll they will pay for that later there's no question about that in the next life
2.
[laɪf]
uh for stealing another life that's why people say oh you can do it so
3.
[laɪf]
well that gets back to what you're saying almost th the family life
4.
[laɪf]
hang out in low life bars and every once in a while there'll be a fight and it it still it
5.
[lʊkɪn]
that's what i'm looking for to do
6.
[lʊkɪŋ]
and until we start looking at ourselves in in the mirror at night and say
7.
[lʊkɪn]
you look through and you say oh okay you know you're looking for things to buy well then you got a two whole
8.
[lʊkɪn]
and he said in the hospital people were looking at him like
9.
[ləvɪŋ]
i mean he taught you to help and be loving toward each other
10.
[liv]
they leave out words or they
11.
[lɛɹn]
you live and you learn
12.
[leɪɡz]
burned his legs and his
13.
[ɪŋkɹɛɾəbli]
incredibly
14.
[ɹɪli]
not really
15.
[mbl̩livɪŋ]
believing that uh you're doing
16.
[ləvɪŋ]
you still love them but you're loving other people also
17.
[læst]
and i worked for the last three years in jobs training
18.
[lɑɾ]
i don't know where the children ever picked up but i am sure that they weren't born that way because there've been a lot of them who have been married
Word Medial
19.
[ɹili]
uh the programs are terrible i think that they need to really redo them
20.
[haɪli]
uh were highly overpaid
21.
[ɹɪdɪkjələs]
yeah just ridiculous amounts of stuff i'm like i don't wanna do that
22.
[fɛlt]
i just we've felt that if we
23.
[hɛlp]
for help
24.
[twɛlv]
twelve
25.
[ɪkspleɪn]
I didn't there's something that I could see there that I can't explain and I still can't explain it
26.
[klæs]
at the last class or before the last class that she had a straight a average at this school
27.
[klɛʔtn̩ɛ]
clinton
28.
[kloʊs]
to be close so i didn't have to drive
Word Final
29.
[wɛl]
well
30.
[stɪl]
down here in columbus and the fact that they still exist
31.
[ɔl]
justifying what they do at all
32.
[ɔl]
don't know our neighbors at all anymore
33.
[fil]
jail and get arrested because I feel I won't do my people
34.
[kɔl]
i mean i she he doesn't throw women in her face no women call the house or anything
35.
[wɛl]
well
36.
[skul]
things to school you never know if you're gonna walk into the building and
37.
[stɪl]
and it's not our generation who's curtailing it it's still
38.
[wəl]
in oregon well
39.
[wɑl]
then i went to elementary while
40.
[kɔl]
call what
41.
[mɔɹəl]
our moral beliefs were
42.
[feɪθfəl]
they're really faithful
43.
[pəɹsnəl]
out of personal
44.
[kɪl]
you can't kill
45.
[ʧɹəbl]
yeah they'd get my loan shark in trouble
46.
[kəntɹoʊl]
you should've had more self control
47.
[əliɡəl]
illegal things to get guns and that sort of thing
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