Didn't as [dIdInt]

W Brewer brewerwa at GMAIL.COM
Tue Jun 24 17:03:07 UTC 2014


WB:  See Ladefoged's rules 10 & 11 for English allophones. Wikip
<T-glottalization> has some astute observations (mostly on UK speech, some
US). Prescriptivists would call it a <<lazy habit>>. Seems2me that prissy
schoolmarms have been hard at work trying to suppress a universal
phonological tendency, especially characteristic of male speech.
IIRC, schwa becomes barred-eye before alveolars . . . (alveolar-raising).

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