Re: Subtitutes for English /T/ and /D/

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 08:25:27 -0700: "Peter T. Daniels"
<grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx>: in sci.lang:

Howie Aronson (teaching phonology many years ago) turned his back,
said the name of a putative local restaurant, and asked us to write it
down. Half the class wrote "Cafe' Mandarin," half wrote "Cathay
Mandarin."

That proves that spoken language contains redundancy, not that [f] and
[T] are almost indistinghuishable.

"Many" of a very small pool -- socially conscious Brits.

How many Brits do you think there are?

(I was just
given a DVD of extras from "Are You Being Served," which included a
biography of Mollie Sugden, which atributed her great success in
comedies of class to her ability to switch among super-posh and gutter-
common within a single sentence, accompanied by numerous examples over
the decades. Evidently this is far, far, far more hilarious over there

Yes, and I, as a Dutchman, heard and appreciated that too.

than to the American audience, which is sufficiently entertained by
the absurdly broad spectacle of Eliza Doolittle doing the same at
Ascot in the movie.)


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Ruud Harmsen
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