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Re: retroflex consonants

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Tuesday, January 28, 2003, 21:25
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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Tristan <kesuari@...>
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