From: | Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...> |
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Date: | Sunday, January 14, 2007, 9:39 |
Henrik Theiling wrote: | Eric Christopherson writes: | > ... If so, would people whose first language is not | > English perceive /kant/ and /kVnt/ to sound the same? | | E.g. Germans, most definitely yes. /V/ is a strange sound to us | sounding very much like our /a/ so many of us pronounce those two | words identically. The same is true for Russian and Ukrainian speakers. I still am not sure about the precise quality of English /V/. -- Yitzik
daniel prohaska <danielprohaska@...> | |
Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> |