Re: another silly phonology question

BP Jonsson wrote:

>At 17:32 2000-11-28 -0800, SMITH,MARCUS ANTHONY wrote:
>
>> > I've also heard [s] in foreign accents for /T/.
>>
>>/T/ is a rare sound in the world, and [s] is probably the most similar
>>sound to it.
>
>Strangely most Germans' English accent has [s z] for /T D/, while
>Scandinavians tend to have (dental) [t d], but then Scandinavian languages
>lack voiced fricatives, our /v/ being a labiodental approximant.
Also Danish [D] (eth) is an approximant too. But Danes have no
problem in substituting Danish [D] for Englsih /D/. English /T/
often gets rendered as [s].

-kristian- 8)