Re: CHAT: Phonemic status of English interdentals

>Muke mooked:
> > Josh Roth scripsit:
> > The general rule is that /D/ is used initially only in function words,
> > and not all of them; also intervocalically, and finally where a final
>/@/
> > ("silent e") has been lost.  This rule is messy, but I think captures
>all
> > the cases.
>
>Except possibly some Greek borrowings such as <mythos>, <pathos>.
Really?  I pernounce those with [T]! Perhaps that is just my lack of
education in Greek. I have never heard *['mIDos] or *['peDos].  Maybe my
astericulation is a bit much, or it could be my dialect (Northeast USA with
some Midwest).

Jake


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