Re: sending mail to the list

Christophe Grandsire scripsit:

> Daniel can repeat as much as he wants that those
> two sounds are very different, to me they are just the same, and it's not
> because I don't want to hear the difference, but just because I cannot hear it.
> A hardware problem if you want), or because I can tell them apart, when in
> isolation (it's the case with the difference between the {a} in "rat" and the
> {a} in "father"), but I cannot command my mouth to make such different sounds,
> because it has not been trained in doing so.
Not a hardware problem (we all have the same hardware, because any baby can
learn any language) but a firmware problem.  At the right time, recognition/
production of [&] was not burned into your ROM.


> I guess it must be the "lax" feature which
> is very difficult to master.
I think so, indeed.

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John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
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