Re: YAEPT: track

From: "Joe" <joe@...>
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 10:52 PM

> It's almost universal - in all dialects.
Even I as an L2 speaker of English do that, although for me
it's rather something like [s\_+], but it's not a fully
articulated [S]. I do that not because of imitating native
speakers but because it comes quite naturally while the
tongue is slipping from [t] to [r\]. The postalveolar"ic"
fricative in between those sounds is I think just a
slipped-in (epethentic or how was it you call that?) glide
to make pronunciation easier, just like the [p] in
/"tS)Om.ski/ => ["tS)Omps.ki] (is that the right
pronunciation anyway, [O]?).

Carsten

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