Re: What's the different between /tS/ as one phoneme and as two?

From: John Atkinson (johnacko_at_bigpond.com)
Date: 07/22/04 

Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 01:19:18 GMT

"Mxsmanic" <mxsmanic@hotmail.com> wrote...
>
> Rutger Hauer [who you're citing as a counterexample to all adult learners
having accents] is a Dutch actor who is perhaps best known as the rebel
> replicant in _Blade Runner_ (1982). He speaks English without an
> accent, and supposedly speaks German without an accent as well.

What evidence do you have that he didn't acquire these languages in early
childhood (as many Netherlanders do?)

John.

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