Re: Chinese Dialect Question

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 11:00:52PM -0400, Tristan McLeay wrote:
> Oh, yes, but I didn't put it under the same category. I thought it was
> generally actually articulated in the same place as an [s] (at least, it
> never sounds exactly like [T]), and due to some problem in the mouth
> rather than simply a lack of practice.
Sometimes it's a physical problem - certainly that's the case with
the kids I mentioned who require speech therapy - but it also
manifests in kids while they're learning to speak.

> That reminds me of my youngest brother learning to speak :) He'd talk of
> amblelances (I think) and washing lions :)
"Washing lions"?

-Mark

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