Re: English /T/, was Re: Spanish ll in different dialects

Joe wrote at 2004-08-28 16:04:47 (+0100)
 > Doug Dee wrote:
 >
 > >IIRC . . . When I was in college, one of my linguistics professors (William
 > >Labov), mentioned that for most speakers of American English, the /T/ phoneme
 > >is generally not pronounced as an interdental -- the tongue doesn't actually
 > >protrude between the teeth.  (He mentioned that most black Americans do have an
 > >interdental.)
 > >
 > >This seems to be a case where the traditional description hasn't caught up to
 > >drifts in pronunciation.
 > >
 > >
 >
 > Yeah, but I speak British English ;-)

So what?  The issue is what Ben speaks, and how it compares to his
teacher's Spanish.

Besides, I speak British English and my [T] isn't
interdental.  (Although I can think of a number of reasons why I might
have an unusual realisation of that phoneme.)

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