Re: Wenedyk numerals
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, August 29, 2002, 13:08 |
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At 13:53 2002-08-28 +0100, Jan van Steenbergen wrote:
>But a dental /s/? Strange, when I try do make it, all I get is [T]...
Actually the more crucial distinction for [s] and [T] is apical vs. laminal
(or tounge tip vs. tongue blade, in Anglo-Saxon :-). Swedish definitely
has an apico-dental /s/ -- pronouncing it laminally is to have that speech
defect called lisping -- while Icelandic distinguishes between
apicoalveolar _s_ /s/ and laminoalveolar _þ_ /T/. Basque has the same
distinction between apicoalveolar _s_ and laminoalveolar _z_.
/BP 8^)>
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