Re: sibilants

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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