> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of Benct Philip
Jonsson
> > Wouldn't that be parallel to the English shift from /x/ to
> > /f/ in words like 'laugh'?
>
> Yes, or rather the Russian /f/ for Greek /T/ -- substituting
> a native phoneme for a foreign one in a way which strikes
> other foreigners used to another substitution funny: we
> expect /s`/ pro /x\/, so /f/ is funny, Germans expect /t/
> pro /T/, so /f/ is funny.
[f] for /T/ is known in dialects of English like Cockney. What is
interesting about /T/ is how some L2's will say [t] and others
[s].