[Ads-l] Dental stops in English

[Paul A Johnston, Jr]

I think of it as New York City, not necessarily Jewish, though it can be.  I have them variably for /t d/ and theta, eth in very casual speech.  I wonder if Irish- or Italian-Americans favor these for /t d/.


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> 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.
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> 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 res=
> earch confirming this?
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