Re: OT: Phonetics (IPA)

Quoting Joe <joe@...>:

> AFAIK, this is a pretty common confusion in languages with retroflexes.
> However, I, as a native English speaker, would place dentals and alveolars
> together, and retroflexes seperately, whereas evidently you would place
> retroflexes and alveolars together, and dentals seperately.
I might point out that for me, whose native language distinguishes dentals and
retroflexes (regardless of whether we phonemize [t`] as /rt/ - it still
contrasts with [t_d] /t/), alveolars sounds like dentals, not retroflexes.

                                                       Andreas

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