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Re: YAEPT: track

From:Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
Date:Monday, June 12, 2006, 18:33
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