Re: OT: Phonetics (IPA)
| From: | Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, July 12, 2003, 14:36 |
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>My native language is Swedish.
>I'm no phonetician, and cannot say whether alveolars are acoustically
>closer
>to retroflexes or dentals, but I am unable to consistently tell dentals and
>alveolars (alveolars as heard in the varieties of English I've heard)
>apart,
>whereas retroflexes sound quite different to me.
Whereas for me, a native speaker of southern USA English, alveolar and
dental /t/ and /d/ sound distinctively different, but alveolar and
retreoflecive ones are diffulcult to differentiate.
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