Re: OT: English and schizophrenia
| From: | Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, August 10, 2001, 11:15 |
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> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 07:02:51 -0400
> From: Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
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> Thomas Wier wrote:
> >Don't Icelandic and Danish have the voiced interdental fricative [D]?
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> 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)