Re: CHAT: minimal pair of English Interdentals
| From: | Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, October 25, 2002, 18:25 |
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Muke Tever wrote:> > i think that this is fairly common. i have /mAT/,
/mADz/; /mawT/,
> > /mawDz/; /mVnT/, /mVnTs/; and /brET/, /brETs/ in my idiolect also.
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>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...)
"House"~"houses" come to mind. Tolkien writes somewhere that he'd prefered
the later spelt "houzes".
Andreas
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