Re: Do I say [s] correctly?

Andreas Johansson wrote:
>Quoting Alex Fink <a4pq1injbok_0@...>:
>
>> 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."
>
>Hm. Those two certainly *sound* quite distinct to me, but I can't seem to
>think of a language distinguishing them phonetically either - all langs with
>retroflexes seem to use dentals for their "normal" coronal POA! The only
>exception I find is Tamil, and that has only one, marginal, sibilant.
>
>                                           Andreas
Another Dravidian lang, Toda, has lamino-dental, apico-alveolar, subapico-
postalveolar (retroflex) and lamino-postalveolar sibilants, however.

My /s/ is lamino-alveolar too, BTW.

John Vertical