Re: Allophones Question

Dirk Elzinga scripsit:

> Your question about which is more basic in English is interesting since
> there have been analyses proposed which claim that [p_h] is more basic;
Not surprising, given the existence of dialects where /b/ is consistently
realized as [p] (Australian, I think, and probably some others as well) --
one might well think in such dialects that "spin" was /sbIn/.

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