>Leon Lin <leon_math@...> wrote:
>These have been confusing me to the point that I start to try to
>figure them out in public. People sometimes stare at me when I
>repeat a phoneme/word over and over again.
Been there; done that!
>Is there a sound difference between "back there" and "bat there"?
Image: A batter takes his batting stance in the dugout, ready to
swing. The umpire points to the home plate & shouts, "No, bat
there!"
I have noticed that my Mexican parishioners often drop the first
consonant in a consonant cluster. I haven't yet analyzed precisely
which ones. "Back there" sounds like "/b{?/ there." "I love pizza"
becomes "I /lV/ pizza."
Charlie
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