Re: YAEPT: track

Hi!

veritosproject@GMAIL.COM writes:
> How do you guys pronounce /track/?  I heard a couple Americans saying
> [tSr\&k], and I was just wondering where that [S] came from.  I
> actually pronounced it that way until recently, when I consciously
> tried stopping.
I'd expect it to occur in most dialects for which /r/ is a
postalveolar approximant.

When I once met someone whose German pronunciation had an /r/ that
most Germans classified as American, I asked her to pronounce
'trinken'.  The result was ['ts_ar\INkN=] -- her /r/ was alveolar and
an epenthetic [s_a] (apical s) popped up quite similar to [S] in the
English word above.

**Henrik