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

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 15:04:10 -0700: Dominic Bojarski
<dominicbojarski@xxxxxxxxx>: in sci.lang:

Yes, That is the point. The listener is forced to rely on context
because he is getting misleading, conflicting or just plain
uninterpretable phonetic input. And that slows the listener down. In
this case, the acoustic similarity is not all that useful in my
experience.

All listeners to natural language utterances ALWAYS rely on context.

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Ruud Harmsen
http://rudhar.com

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