Re: /S/ /Z/ /tS/ etc.



2 Sep 2006 08:29:39 -0700: "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
in sci.lang:

If it's so obvious, howcome no phonetician has ever commented on this
alleged "national" trait before?

I didn't say every American does it, I only said that it occurs a lot
among Americans, most of them young women, and that it is hardly ever
heard in non-American kinds of English (I wouldn't know about Canada).

Does that, if correct, make it an national American trait? I wouldn't
know.

.



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