Re: CHAT: Japanese English (was Re: Correction,I hope,of M/CURL)

And Rosta wrote:
> beginning in _stu-_ and _str-_, which could well be /stSu:-/
I have /stj/ in a few words, I think.

> but IIRC the treatment of _str-_ that I describe has been observed
> in the US.
Yeah, /t/ has a tendency to move slightly backwards before /r/, but
never as far as /tS/ in my dialect.  I don't THINK I've ever heard
anything close to /stSr/, but I could be mistaken.

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