"All of" pronunciation [duplicate]

Solution 1:

The "L" sound:

Well, If I am correct the "L" sound itself, isolated from other sounds, is simply pronouncing a consonant while the tip of your tongue is touching the roof of your mouth.

Importance of Consonant:

Therefore, how you pronounce "all" isn't dependent on the "L" sound, but technically how you pronounce the a sound.

(Speech Therapy) How to Physically Pronounce it:

This section will give you a detailed description of its pronunciation

If you need a better visual of what your tongue should be doing imagine the tip of your tongue is your hand and the roof-side of the tip is the palm of your hand. Press the "palm of your hand" to the roof of your mouth, while pronouncing whatever you think the a sound is.

The way I (American City Accent) pronounce the a sound is like "ah"/"awe". If you are struggling, try more practice with just your basic consonant sounds. There are many ways to pronounce the consonant "A"

Another way to practice, is to practice pronouncing the A consonant in all of its pronunciations while pronouncing the "L" sound.

Also, technically due to differing accents (native or not) essentially there is no "proper" way to say a sound, but more a conformative way to do it, so...

Last, but not least, let's account for accent and region:

So, the other question is what native accent or regional accent do you want to conform to? American, British, Australian, etc? City, Country, Extremely-Gangster, in-between?

Oh. One other thing...

The example provided about "olive," as an American who lives in the city, I pronounce "all of" just like "olive"

^{*To Anyone It May Concern: feel free to edit my response, if you speak differently with a different regional accent}

According to tChrist, you must also account for the Cot-Caught merger:

This plays into account of how you pronounce the word "olive"

here is a detailed video on the difference and the merge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtO0s7pXkaE

According to the video, it is perhaps better to compare using the term "hot dog" as opposed to the word "olive"

In the phrase "hot dog" the "o" sound made in "dog" is how I pronounce the "a" in "all"

An easy way to remember to use the hot dog test or how it is used is that "dog" is commonly informally (and I mean highly informally) written more phonetically, "dawg"

Solution 2:

Usually, when I say 'l' the sound finishes with my tongue still touching the roof of my mouth just behind the top front teeth. This is the sound I make when l is at the end of a word ('all').

When a word/syllable begins with 'l' the sound starts in the same way but it finishes with a (more or less obvious) schwa (ə). This happens because my tongue bounces away from the roof of my mouth and I aspirate as it does.

So, when I say "all" - and it finishes the phrase ("He has it all.") - I say /ɔːl/.

But when I say "all of it", I usually say 'or-lov-it' and the 'l', being at the start of the second syllable, is /ɔː ləɒv ɪt/.