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Re: Phoneme winnowing continues

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Thursday, June 5, 2003, 19:33
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