Re: CHAT: Phonemic status of English interdentals

Jake X scripsit:

> 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).
No, Muke was saying that these *are* /T/ even though they're intervocalic
(historically, because they were borrowed after intervocalic fricatives
were voiced in the pre-OE period).

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