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Re: sibilants

From:ROGER MILLS <rfmilly@...>
Date:Wednesday, August 20, 2008, 17:19
David McCann wrote:
> >According to Peter Ladefoged and Ian Maddieson (The Sounds of the >World's Languages), > >"We investigated 28 native Californian college students and 28 British >university students and staff… Nearly 90% of the Californian speakers >produced θ … with the tip of the tongue protruded between the teeth… >Only 10% of the British speakers made the sound this way; 90% of them >used an articulation with the tip of the tongue behind the upper front >teeth." > >J. C. Catford, who worked in Michegan, only described the dental >articulation, so the interdental may be a Western thing. Any comments >from the US? > >My speech is British (RP), but I'm one of the 10% with the interdental.
And I (native midwestern US) am with the 90% of Brits (behind the front teeth). The only time I saw anyone protrude their tongue, was with a friend (Native New Hampshirite) at school, but he was emphasizing a word for his deaf father........

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