At 3:10 PM -0600 2/1/03, Nik Taylor wrote:
>Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
>> (A wild thought: perhaps the reason that /D/ is alveolar in Danish
>
>If it's alveolar, how can it be /D/?
The symbol for a non-strident voiced alveolar fricative is [D_-]. That's an eth
with an underscore. Shoshoni has the voiceless version as an alternant of /t/
following phonemic /h/; the two segments are merged into [T_-] -- a
non-strident voiceless alveolar fricative.
Dirk
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