Um...I don't know...it doesn't seem likely that anyone could mix a
voiced [f] and a consonant-al-ized??? [u].
On 3/28/06, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:
> On 3/28/06, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:
> > the problem is that we Germans switch to English mode, i.e. switch
> >
> > all /r/ > [r\] and
> > all /v/ or /w/ (we can't distinguish by default) > [w]
>
> Are you saying your typical monlingual German can't actually *hear*
> the difference between [v] and [w]?
>
> --
> Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
>