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

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:55:17 GMT: "John Atkinson" <johnacko@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
in sci.lang:

Perhaps it's dialectal thing. For example, in Britain (and Australia) T
and D are dental fricatives, made with the tip of the tongue behind the
upper front teeth, while many (most?) Americans use interdental
fricatives, with the tip of the tongue protruding between the teeth.
They don't sound quite the same, and ISTM that the latter sounds a
little more like [f v].

I didn't know that, about the Americans I mean.

The book "Drop you foreign accent" mentions that Brits say [f] and [v]
with the top of the lower lip, not the inside of the lower lip as the
Dutch do.
True?
Different in America?
Part of the explanation?

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Ruud Harmsen
http://rudhar.com

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