> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of ROGER MILLS
> >"We investigated 28 native Californian college students and
28 British
> >university students and staff… Nearly 90% of the
Californian speakers
> >produced θ … with the tip of the tongue protruded between
the teeth…
> >Only 10% of the British speakers made the sound this way; 90%
of them
> >used an articulation with the tip of the tongue behind the
upper front
> >teeth."
> >
> >J. C. Catford, who worked in Michegan, only described the
dental
> >articulation, so the interdental may be a Western thing. Any
comments
> >from the US?
> >
> >My speech is British (RP), but I'm one of the 10% with the
interdental.
>
> And I (native midwestern US) am with the 90% of Brits (behind
the front
> teeth). The only time I saw anyone protrude their tongue, was
with a friend
> (Native New Hampshirite) at school, but he was emphasizing a
word for his
> deaf father........
Interdental here. SoCal native, which puts me in with the 90%,
meaning I have to work a littel to get the Spanish variety which
is behind the upper teeth.