Re: retroflex consonants

Joe wrote:

>nk it may be likely that the native speaker with whom you spoke wasn't
>
>
>>looking at things from an objective point of view (in much the same way
>>that a native English speaker, though clearly no one with linguistic
>>training, might swear that "th" constitutes two sounds).
>>Czesc,
>>    Josh
>>
>>
>
>Sorry, I missed this bit.  Guh?  |th| DOES constitute two sounds: [T] and [D].
>While the difference can't be proven to be phonemic(although /tiT/'teeth'
>versus /tiD/'teethe',is a possibility) I can hear the difference, and a lot
>of others can too.
>
>
He meant [T] *or* [D] constitutes two sounds. A better example would've
been 'a native English speaker, though clearly not one with linguistic
training, might swear that 'sh' constitutes two sounds'.

Tristan

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