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Re: Do I say [s] correctly?

From:Alex Fink <a4pq1injbok_0@...>
Date:Wednesday, July 11, 2007, 8:21
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 04:13:59 -0400, Alex Fink <a4pq1injbok_0@...> wrote:
>On [s.] (really s with dot below) Bright writes "For present purposes I >write [s.] for either the retroflex or the apico-alveolar sibilant, since I >know of no language that distinguishes them." But I can't find reference, >at least in the narrow window that Google Books shows me, to any language >distinguishing (blade-alveolar) [s] and apico-alveolar [s.] either, and from >my English perspective this strikes me as a nicer distinction. So I wonder >what induced the apico-alveolar sibilant to be called an [s.] instead of an >[s], and whether any language distinguishes the two English [s]s.
I meant to add that the first example that came to my mind that might, Basque, has according to Wikipedia apico-alveolar <s> and lamino-_dental_ <z>, which is probably a typical state of affairs for maximum differentiation, but doesn't quite give us apico-alveolar ve. lamino-alveolar. Alex