Re: another silly phonology question
| From: | SMITH,MARCUS ANTHONY <smithma@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, November 29, 2000, 1:32 |
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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.
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> 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.