Re: Furrin phones in my own lect!

Hi!

"Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> writes:
> 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]?
No, I just wanted to say it's confusing to have two phonemes which we
Germans would treat as two allophones of the same phoneme.

**Henrik