All 40 USA English phonemes (Was Re: Eggcorn? "warn" > "worn")

[Gordon, Matthew J.]

There's also the fact that velar is back and alveolar is front. I'd like to think that that was just an inadvertent error, but given some of Tom's other comments on phonetics, who knows?


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Nonsense. Elementary contrary evidence is found in scores of minimal pairs, 
e.g., "thin" and "thing."
Allophones by definition do not contrast in minimal pairs.

In a message dated 2/13/09 2:51:03 PM, truespel at HOTMAIL.COM writes:


> The front or velar n and back or alveolar n are just allophones of one 
> another. 
> 




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