e/English-language vowel changes before historic l

Information
has gloss	eng: Salary-celery merger The salary-celery merger is a conditioned merger of (as in bat) and (as in bet) when they occur before , thus making salary and celery homophones. The merger is not well studied. It is referred to in various sociolinguistic publications, but usually only as a small section of the larger change undergone by vowels preceding in articles about l-vocalisation.
lexicalization	eng: English-language vowel changes before historic l
instance of	(noun) the English language as used in the United States American English, American language, American

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