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Re: /T/ -> /t_d/?

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Friday, October 29, 2004, 16:04
On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 05:09:34PM +0200, Carsten Becker wrote:


>    I guess /T/ would change to /s/ in conservative dialects, just like
>    many Germans do because they're ashamed to pronounce /T/.

First, you seem to be using phonemic delimiters /.../ where you mean
phonetic [...].  But mostly I want to know why a German would be
"ashamed" to pronounce [T].  What's shameful about it?

-Marcos