Re: OT: English and schizophrenia

Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote
> > 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/.
If I had a Danish pronounciation guide, I'd be able to tell you what it
said. My knowledge of Danish is basically what you get from being a Swede
with a general interest in languages.

                                                        Andreas

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