Re: Foreigner's errors (was: Russian soft/hard 'l' ...)

jcowan@REUTERSHEALTH.COM wrote:
> For English-as-a-whole, no such majority/expected dialect exists, however.
Not as a complete phonology, but there are still distinctions made in
all or nearly all dialects.  For example, I don't know of any Engish
dialects that collapse /l/ and /r/.  And there are phonemes, such as /T/
and /D/, that are distinguished by the majority of dialects, and of
which the lack of is stigmatized in most areas of the English-speaking
world.  And there's certainly a world of difference between an obvious
foreign accent and simply another accent of English.

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