Re: another silly phonology question

At 16:21 2000-12-01 -0500, Nik Taylor wrote:
>BP Jonsson wrote:
> > Strangely most Germans' English accent has [s z] for /T D/
>
>The few German accents I've heard have /d/ and /t/ for /D/ and /T/, at
>least syllable-initially, with /s/ and /z/ syllable finally (like /dEs/
>for "death", but /d@/ for "the")
My mother says [z@ sIN] "the thing" and similar.  She learnt her English in
Berlin.



/ B.Philip Jonsson B^)>
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