Re: /T/ -> /t_d/?
| From: | Carsten Becker <naranoieati@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, October 29, 2004, 17:01 |
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On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 12:04:30 -0400, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:
>First, you seem to be using phonemic delimiters /.../ where you mean
>phonetic [...].
No, those /.../ were thought for allophones. So /T/ = [T, D] in my case!
>But mostly I want to know why a German would be
>"ashamed" to pronounce [T]. What's shameful about it?
Maybe they're ashamed to mispronounce it, maybe it's due to the teacher not
insisting on the correct pronounciation of words, I don't know.
C.
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