Re: retroflex consonants

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.

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