Re: More Ere:tas: The fable of the North Wind and the Sun

En réponse à Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...>:

>
> I still don't really get it --- my Danish phonemes are interfering.
> /{/ ~ /a/ ~ /A/ are allophones for me, with /A/ in rhotic and velar
> environments, and otherwise /{/ as long and /a/ as short.
>
> So I know how produce all three sounds, but not in free variation, and
> I'm hard put to distinguish between them in languages where they do
> vary freely.
>
I said: "understand", I never said: "reproduce", let alone in everyday
speech. :))))

I often have a hard time hearing the two sounds apart, and if I can pronounce
them in isolation, in normal speech I cannot. "Cat" is still [kat] for me (yes,
I usually don't aspirate my stops at the beginning of words. Sorry to be
French :))) ).

Christophe.

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