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

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 14:46:37 -0700: "Peter T. Daniels"
<grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx>: in sci.lang:

Either there is a phonemic distinction in some idiolect, or there
isn't. There's no indeterminacy. Absolutely. Ever. No way. Nohow.

It's just not logical in the light of historical change. No such
change is abrupt. So there just cannot be absolute and sudden
transitions without a transition period. Not even in the speech of one
person, in his personal ideolect.
Anyone with a sense of logic can see that. Those who can't just cannot
be helped.

--
Ruud Harmsen
http://rudhar.com

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