Re: CHAT: minimal pair of English Interdentals

 --- Jake X <alwaysawake247@...> wrote: > Hi
All,
>
> I recently reread a post of several weeks ago about
> whether [T] and [D] are
> cophonemic in English.  I found a minimal pair:
> teeth [tiT] and to teethe
> [tiD] (as in what a baby does when s/he grows the
> first teeth).  Does that
> prove anything?  Does anyone here speak a dialect
> which has both of those
> pronbounced the same?
>
> Jake
not me, but the difference in vowel lenght ( phonetic
rather than phonemic in this case ) reminded me of
something i saw somewhere in a book where it claimed
to find a real case of phonemic vowel length in
english :

jam [dZ&m] sweet pectinised (?!) fruit spread
jam [dZ&:\m] static build up of traffic

i'm pretty sure i make this distinction. do other
people ?

bn

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bnathyuw | landan | arR
stamp the sunshine out | angelfish
your tears came like anaesthesia | phèdre

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