They say "Ih-slip", I say "Aye-slip"

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Tue Apr 10 18:07:52 UTC 2007


At 4/10/2007 10:37 AM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>If there's any variation, I
>would guess it might be in voicing the fricative, but never in laxing
>the vowel.

This is beyond my learning.  Can you dumb it down for me?  That is,
what would these two sound like?

Thanks,
Joel

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