Re: mutation and rinya

dirk elzinga wrote:

> American English flapping is an
> example of this; /t/ and /d/, when following a stressed vowel and
> preceding a stressless vowel are pronounced as flaps.
This is overly restrictive, at least for me:  I pronounce
"What are they?" as [w@*'ARDej], where * = flap, R =
bunched approximant.

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        John Cowan      http://www.ccil.org/~cowan      cowan@ccil.org
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Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau / Und trank die Milch vom Paradies.
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