Re: another silly phonology question

On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Eric Christopherson wrote:

> I've heard something like ["dI?I~?] for <didn't>. I may be wrong, but this
> kind of use of [?] for /d/ seems to be mainly characteristic of some
> African-American speech around here.
I've personally used something like that for <didn't>, or even [dI:n]
when I'm speaking fast.  (That last [n] should probably be syllabic n,
but I don't know how to portray it.)  Likewise, when counting in English
from 1-10 I use [sE:n] (is that the right one?  the vowel in American
English "ten" or "friend"), also with a syllabic n at the end.  Call it
laziness, but I hate having that one random 2-syllable word in the set
since I count in 10's and record everything else on my fingers so I don't
tangle my tongue.  I usually use the Sino-Korean (?) 1-10 for that reason.

YHL