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Re: CHAT: minimal pair of English Interdentals

From:Jake X <alwaysawake247@...>
Date:Friday, October 25, 2002, 23:12
> An interesting thing I noticed a while back: some -th final words in my > idiolect use /Dz/ in the plural, for example: > > Moth (/mAT/) - Moths (/mADz/) > Mouth (/mawT/) - Mouths (/mawDz/) > > But not all, for example: > Months (/mVnT/) - Months (/mVnTs/) > Breath - Breaths (/brET/ - /brETs/) > > I believe that the /T/-/D/ alternation is a rare phenomenon in my > idiolect.
Hmmm... I do that sometimes too.... maybe it isn't so rare. I think that phenomenon parallels wife and wives, for example.
>Nik Taylor
Jake