Re: Speaking without a foreign accent

From: Mxsmanic (mxsmanic_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 12/07/04 

Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 21:39:32 +0100

Ruud Harmsen writes:

> >Miguel Carrasquer writes:
> >
> >> Studies such as the one at:
> >> <http://psychology.binghamton.edu/Faculty/flapcorpus.pdf>
> >> show that the vowel is longer (avg. 111 vs. 95 ms) in ladder
> >> than in latter, so at least a narrow transcription [l&.r*R]
> >> vs. [l&r*R] seems justified.
> >
> >That doesn't make it a phonemic difference.
>
> OK, so there is a systematic phonetic difference, there is a meaning
> difference, but the difference is not phonemic.

I don't see any mention of a meaning different in the backquoted
statements to which I responded. 

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