Re: Phoneme winnowing continues

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>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.
OK, just to confuse the issue, I have phonemic vowel length. :)

Dam the river!  /d&m/
Damn the river!  /d&:m/

I have at least one other minimal pair (lam : lamb); I think there may be
another, but I forget it.

But I prefer the above because I can use it in the same context.

Ian

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