Re: more English orthography

Marcus Smith wrote:
> I'm sorry.  I don't see the difference between allophony and phonemic
> neutralization in this context.  I would certainly say that devoiced final
> consonants are allophones of the voiced phoneme in German.
I suppose it depends on which definition you use of "phoneme".  The
definitions I learned and use do not allow two phonemes to share an
allophone (at least in the same environment).

To put it another way, how would you distinguish between phonemic
neutralization and allophony, or would you?

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