Re: another silly phonology question

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 :)

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