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Re: Icelandic language (was Re: World Pidgin Suffices)

From:Joe Mondello <rugpretzel@...>
Date:Thursday, June 22, 2000, 1:41
Danny Wier gov ra:

> Yeah, I should've thought of it... Verner's Law has [T] > [D]. So what do > you call it when two phonemes, such as /T/ and /d/ in Icelandic, share an > allophone, [D]?
neutralization, isn't it? like in English when /t/ and /d/ are allophones of that flap (whats its symbol again?).