Re: Chinese Dialect Question
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, October 3, 2003, 16:18 |
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On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 04:37:14PM +0100, Joe wrote:
> Well, in a lot of S. English dialects, /T/ and /f/ have merged into [f].
Really? So "path" is [paf] in adult speech? That sounds so much like
a child's error to me that I have trouble imagining it as a dialectical
variant.
But I don't know that you can claim [T] is particularly difficult, since
many children say [T] when trying to say [s]. It just depends on the
child.
Are there any dialects in which /l/ and /j/ have merged into [j]? That's
another common children's error. ("Turn out the yight, Mommy!")
-Mark
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