Re: Do I say [s] correctly?

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