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Re: another silly phonology question

From:SMITH,MARCUS ANTHONY <smithma@...>
Date:Wednesday, November 29, 2000, 1:32
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, 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/.
Not in my (and most other) dialect. /T/ and /D/ are dental, while /t/ and /d/ are alveolar.
> 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.