Re: Phoneme winnowing continues
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 5, 2003, 21:38 |
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On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 03:35:39PM -0500, Nik Taylor wrote:
> Tho, I will say that beyond that, there are dialectal minimum pairs,
> like, in my dialect, then/thin (due to the Southern US merger of /E/ and
> /I/ before nasals)
Thus the seemingly redundant word "inkpen" used to distinguish the [pIn] you
write with from the [pIn] you stick through things. :)
> mouth/mouthe
Hm. I spell both of those "mouth", but come to think of it I do pronounce
the noun with a [T] and the verb with a [D].
-Mark
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