. Can be dental or retroflexl. Use Of /a/ in Place of nasal and lateral tense e+ may lose their kt d/ as in Amalgam English (and ildeed in RP). some losion and in sequtnce: Of Plosives is also allowable might still be an intelligible form of English given that communica- in L1 English. tion using it will be in context: where the language used has a fair degree of redictabihty. - ''p j. preferable. The distinction betw'een some form of /r/ and some form of /l/ should however be insisted upon since it is of highA lmost all of what was said in 13.4. 1 concerning consonants