Eek! YAEPT! [Re: English /T/]

On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 04:04:47PM +0100, Joe wrote:
> >IIRC . . . When I was in college, one of my linguistics professors (William
> >Labov), mentioned that for most speakers of American English, the /T/
> >phoneme
> >is generally not pronounced as an interdental -- the tongue doesn't
> >actually
> >protrude between the teeth.  (He mentioned that most black Americans do
> >have an
> >interdental.)
Well, I'm a white American and my [T] and [D] are definitely
interdental.  I'd concede it could be "postdental as modified by overbite",
except that parts of the tongue extend past the upper teeth, too. :)

-Marcos