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Re: New Try from a New Guy

From:Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...>
Date:Sunday, December 15, 2002, 23:24
[Hi everyone.  Back on for the holidays.]

Quoting Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>:

> On Sat, 14 Dec 2002 20:27:56 +0100 Christian Thalmann <cinga@...> > writes: > > --- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Michael David Martin <mdmartin@i...> > > wrote: Do /s/ and /T/ have [z] and [D] as allophones, or are they > > always [s] and [T]?
Are we talking about English here? Certainly in English [z] and [D] are phones of distinct phonemes /z/ and /D/.
> Talking about /s/ being realized as [z]... Last night me and a few > friends watched the video version of the musical "Joseph and the Amazing > Technicolor Dreamcoat", and i was surprised to hear every single person > in it pronounce the name |Joseph| with a [z]. I've only ever heard [s] > in that name before. Is that because the people i know are closer to the > Hebrew form [josef], while officially the English version actually has > [z]? Or does the English name itself have dialectal variants?
I've always pronounced, and heard, it as [dZou(z@f]. But it appears that there is some dialectal variation, [s] being the only other alternant. ========================================================================= Thomas Wier "I find it useful to meet my subjects personally, Dept. of Linguistics because our secret police don't get it right University of Chicago half the time." -- octogenarian Sheikh Zayed of 1010 E. 59th Street Abu Dhabi, to a French reporter. Chicago, IL 60637