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From: rdd@usa1.com (Aaron J. Dinkin)
Subject: Re: The phonemic transcription problem
Message-ID: <rdd-0108960856080001@dmn1-37.usa1.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 1996 08:56:08 -0500
References: <4tac7o$r22@thighmaster.admin.lsa.umich.edu> <DvAsBt.4ow@tigadmin.ml.com> <31fdf844.109561698@nntp.ix.netcom.com> <rdd-3007961124560001@dmn1-51.usa1.com> <31fef195.173103662@nntp.ix.netcom.com> <4to0jo$qu4@cronkite.polaristel.net> <32001264.F5@eskimo.com>
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In article <32001264.F5@eskimo.com>, rickw@eskimo.com wrote:

> Mark Odegard wrote:
> <snip>
> > I note that I can make "T" or "D" with my tongue in two
> > widely separated places, in the usual place at the edge of
> > the ridge behind the upper teeth, and atypically, by flexing
> > my tonguetip to touch the very top of the mouth. The sound
> > is different, but for English it's allophonic.
> 
> Mark, what makes you call it "allophonic"?

Because, although it was a very different phone, he still heard it as "'T'
or 'D'".

-Aaron J. Dinkin
Dr. Whom

