Re: YAEPT Re: English /T/, was Re: Spanish ll in different dialects

Ben Poplawski wrote:

(>But...English [T] is interdental.  Don't you mean the other way round?)

Not for me. I'm a native speaker of General American for reference. I
considered how I pronounced and just checked out how my little brother
pronounced unvoiced 'th'. It's not interdental for sure; his lower teeth did
not touch. I would say post-dental, checking again; the tip of his tongue
does not appear at the tip of his teeth.

Same here. The only time I've seen anyone do a really interdental [T] was
when a friend was carefully enunciating the name "Thayer" for his father,
who was hard of hearing.  That was exaggerated, of course; I'm willing to
concede that for some, the tongue tip might touch the bottom of the
incisors.

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