From: "Josh Brandt-Young" <vionau@...>
> I read the following text, changing all occurrences of [T] to [D]:
[snip]
> I read it very quickly the first time, and as she noticed nothing
> remarkable, I read it again more slowly with fairly strong enunciation on
> the interdentals--still nothing. Even when I read the test words
> *individually* she had no idea what I was looking for.
>
> This seems to prove (at least in her dialect) that they're not separately
> phonemic--what do you think?
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"). To prove they're not
separately phonemic you'd have to run the same test the other way around as well
(changing all instances of [D] to [T]).
*Muke!
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