| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 5, 2003, 19:36 |
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 02:49:23PM -0400, Robert B Wilson wrote:> thistle/this'll is another one, but wouldn't it be "teeth" [tiT] and > "teethe" [ti:D]?That is the phonetic realization, but I think the pair still counts as minimal for T/D. The vowel length by itself is not phonemic; [ti:T] and [tiD] are still understood as "teeth" and "teethe" rather than the reverse. -Mark
| Ian Spackman <ianspackman@...> |