[Ads-l] Dental stops in English

[Geoffrey Steven Nathan]

I have an echo of some discussion, or even a publication, which found that some dialects of American English have dental rather than alveolar stops.


Impressionistically it seems to me stereotype American Jewish (not Yiddish-accented, mind you) English has dental t's and d's. Does anyone know of research confirming this?


Geoff


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