Re: CHAT: ConScripts

Henrik Theiling wrote:
> Hi!
>
> R A Brown writes:
>> Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:
>>> On 5.8.2007 John Vertical wrote:
>>>
>>>> (Also, why would that /s/ become dental, anyway? Isn't English /t/
>>>> alveolar?)
>>> True, I was thinking of cases like /p&Ts/
>> Do you mean /pADz/    :)
>
> Oops, I have sg. /pAT/ vs. pl. /pAs/.  I think I simplify all /Ts/ to
> /s/ in English.  Am I alone with this L2 pronunciation?
I can't back you up on this one I'm afraid---I can manage two-segment
clusters just fine thankyverymuch. (On the other hand, when we get
stupid things like /lfTs/ in "twelfths", I'm all for knocking out a
segment or two ... I think I'm inclined to say [tw&lfs], but the /l/ can
also be deleted or vocalised.)

(Or, by "Am I alone with this L2 pronunciation?", did you mean "are
there any other L2 speakers who do this?" rather than "Or is this a
marker of L2ness?".)

--
Tristan.

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