Non native speaker?

[Laurence Horn]

At 1:01 PM -0500 10/23/02, Matthew Gordon wrote:
>This treatment of the interdental fricatives is one of the commonly reported
>features of AAVE (African American Vernacular English) phonology. The
>appearance of stops in initial position for Standard English fricatives is
>found in vernaculars all over the US and Britain (and maybe elsewhere). The
>pattern of [f] for [theta] is, I think, more restricted but not exclusive to
>AAVE. I don't have Wells here to check.
>
also a shibboleth for Cockney, at least in contexts like "wif'" for "with"