Re: CHAT: Phonemic status of English interdentals

John Cowan wrote:
>Nik Taylor scripsit:
>
> > Muke Tever wrote:
> > > I think it proves that (at least in her dialect) [D] is an allophone
>of [T]
> > > (just as, say, [d] is an allophone of [z] in "doesn't")
> >
> > Hunh?  How is [d] an allophone of /z/?
>
>Some people, including me some of the time, say [Idnt] for "isn't" and
>[dVdnt] for "doesn't.
Unless context was sufficiently unambiguous, I suspect I'd probably hear
[Idnt] as "he'dn't". [dVdnt] might be misheard as "didn't", since both [I]
and [V] often tend to [@] in unstressed positions.

Have this habit of yours ever caused that kind of misunderstandings?

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