Re: New Try from a New Guy

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]?
> -- Christian Thalmann
-

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?


-Stephen (Steg)
 "living in captivity, it's hard to know what's real -
  you can't take what they give you, but you get what you can steal.
  half the world is cold and hard, but all the world's a stage;
  and this is my performance, growing up inside a cage..."
     ~ 'growing up inside a cage' by jason spitz

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