Re: English as a creole.

On Jul 23, 8:07 am, phogl...@xxxxxx wrote:

You tell that the child won't produce [T] if the environment does not
reinforce it, or if the child does not have a physical deformity (I
certainly don't have any detectable physical deformity of mouth).
Could it not be more about the child's incompetence to hear and
perceive a meaningful distinction between its own [T] and other
people's [s]?-

That certainly sounds like an abnormality, doesn't it? Something amiss
in the neural circuitry, or even within the ear?

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