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Re: another silly phonology question

From:Eric Christopherson <raccoon@...>
Date:Thursday, November 30, 2000, 1:18
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 08:11:54PM -0500, Nik Taylor wrote:
> Andrew Chaney wrote: > > Around here (Louisiana) one would more often hear /d/ or /t/ for /th/. > > To me, the [f] makes more sense than /d/ or /t/ since /th/ is a fricative and > > /d/ & /t/ are both stops. > > But /t/ and /d/ have the same place of articulation as /T/ and /D/. > I've also heard [s] in foreign accents for /T/.
Not in English, usually; /t/ and /d/ are alveolar, whereas /T/ and /D/ are dental (or interdental as some call them). Speaking of which, my Spanish professor says that the intervocalic allophone [D] of /d/ in Spanish is not exactly the same as the voiced allophone of Castilian /T/. I find this interesting, but I don't know of any minimal pairs contrasting the two. If anyone else does though, I'd like to know :) -- Eric Christopherson / *Aiworegs Ghristobhorosyo