thy thigh etc. (external sandhi in English)

Tristan Alexander McLeay zsau at hobbiton.org
Wed May 23 09:50:06 UTC 2001


I don't know how relevant this is to the whole discussion, but I originally
couldn't tell the difference between [T] and [D], even though I was using
them in the regular fashion, as far as I can tell, but 'with' seems to have
lots of fun, alternating between /wIT/, /wID/, /w at T/, and /w at D/, depending
on it's stress, it's compoundness, and the voicing of the next sound.
I am an Australian, speaking English natively, with native-speaking parents.
(well, mother is ESL, but can't remember Dutch very well, and speaks English
as well as a native anyway)

Tristan



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