Re: Scouse final plosives (was: vowel descriptions)
| From: | Tom Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 16, 1998, 23:51 |
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BP.Jonsson wrote:
> This isn't as strange as may seem. Icelandic /T/ and /s/ differ not as
> dental vs. alveolar, but as laminal vs. apical alveolar, and the same i=
s
> true about _z_ vs. _s_ in Basque. Maybe the laminal vs. apical articul=
ator
> is the main distinction in English also, rather than the dental vs.
> alveolar place.
No, English /T/ is quite definitely dental. Actually, I've heard the
difference between American and English dialects is mainly that
the apex of the tongue is fully between the ridges of the teeth in
the former's dialect, while only just behind in the latter.
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