Re: another silly phonology question

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.

/ B.Philip Jonsson B^)>
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