Re: CHAT: Phonemic status of English interdentals

Tristan scripsit:

> I have never heard 'just' be pronounced anything but /dZas(t)/ in
> stressed positions (but when unstressed, it's almost always /dZ@s/).
Many Americans, chiefly Westerners (it's a stereotype) but including even
thoroughly Eastern me, distinguish sharply between the adverb "just",
pronouncing it [dZ1st], and the adjective "just", pronounced [dZVst].
(This is only just, as they have different though related Latin origins:
the adverb from IUXTA, the adjective from IUSTUM, probably via French.)

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