Scobbie, James M.Pouplier, MarianneWrench, Alan A.2018-06-292018-06-292007-08Scobbie, J., Pouplier, M. & Wrench, A. (2007) Conditioning factors in external sandhi : an EPG study of English /l/ vocalisation., Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of the ICPhS, pp. 441-444.http://www.icphs2007.de/https://eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/handle/20.500.12289/44English l-sandhi involves an allophonic alternation in alveolar contact for word-final /l/ in connected speech [4]. EPG data for five Scottish Standard English and five Southern Standard British English speakers shows that there is individual and dialectal variation in contact patterns. We analysed vocalisation rate (% of tokens with no alveolar contact) and the area of any residual alveolar contact. Word-final /l/ contact is, to some extent, onset-like before vowel-initial words and coda-like before words with a labial onset C. If the vowel has a glottal attack, however, or the onset C is /h/, sandhi is less predictable, suggesting that resyllabification is insufficient as a mechanism for conditioning tongue tip behaviour of word final /l/.441-444L-SandhiResyllabification, VocalisationGlottalisationEpgDialect Variationarticle