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Re: OT: English and schizophrenia

From:Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...>
Date:Friday, August 10, 2001, 11:15
> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 07:02:51 -0400 > From: Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> > > Thomas Wier wrote: > >Don't Icelandic and Danish have the voiced interdental fricative [D]? > > They do, tho' Danish don't have a phonemic contrast /d/-/D/ IIRC. Icelandic > also have /T/.
Try <bredde>-<brede> in Danish. I don't know what the pronunciation guide in your dictionary says, but my ears say that they are a minimal pair for /d/-/D/. (<bredde> may well have been /bREDd@/ half a century ago. It isn't now. But otherwise there's a rule of thumb that intervocalic <d> is /d/ after short vowel, /D/ after long --- and since vowel length is phonemic, the /d/-/D/ contrast would not have to be). Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)