Re: CHAT: cultural interpretation [was Re: THEORY: language and the brain]
| From: | Tristan <kesuari@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, July 2, 2003, 15:10 |
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On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 00:28, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> Also, it seems to me that Englishers tend to hear [dZ_0] as /dZ/ rather
> than /tS/. Nativers?
Well, I'm not exactly sure what it is phonetically, nor even if this is
the same thing as what you're talking about, but /tS/ after /s/ I hear
as /dZ/, and I'm not alone in this. Hence, 'nextyear' sounds like
[neksdZI:@] to me (actually, phonemically it, and lastyear, do have
/-dZ-/, but there when a normal word ending in -st and a normal word
beginning in /j-/ are pronounced adjacent in normal speech, the result
sounds like [sdZ]; normally /t+j/=[tS]).
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Tristan.
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