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Re: CHAT: minimal pair of English Interdentals

From:Muke Tever <mktvr@...>
Date:Friday, October 25, 2002, 11:33
From: "Robert B Wilson" <han_solo55@...>
> > 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. > > i think that this is fairly common. i have /mAT/, /mADz/; /mawT/, > /mawDz/; /mVnT/, /mVnTs/; and /brET/, /brETs/ in my idiolect also.
But it's not limited to /T D/. I think this is similar to what gives us "wife ~ wives" and "knife ~ knives". (I dont know if there are any /s z/ pairs offhand...) *Muke! -- http://www.frath.net/

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