Re: Phoneme winnowing continues
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 5, 2003, 19:33 |
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On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 07:06:39PM +0100, Joe wrote
(about T/D minimal pairs in English)
> "thistle" and "this'll". [TISl=] and [DISl=]. And maybe teeth and teethe
> [tiT] vs [tiD].
Excellent examples. Thank you. Nevermore will I make the mistake of
thinking English has only one "th" phoneme with two allophones. :)
Teeny tiny correction in vain attempt to save face: while phonemic
/tiT/ is also phonetic [tIT], phonemic /tiD/ is realized as
phonetic [ti:D]; English vowels automatically lengthen before a
voiced consonant. :)
-Mark