Re: OT: Phonetics (IPA)

Stone Gordonssen likis:

> >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.
Same is the case for me. I speak English as a second language. Hindi is my
first language. Can anybody have examples of these sounds as a .wav file or
something and send it to the group. May be my pronunciation, which is
alveolar is different from that of the English or the Americans, who also
have alveolars. Are there two kinds of alveolars?

Nikhil