Re: [tied] More nonsense: Is English /d/ truely voiced?

From: Glen Gordon
Message: 19076
Date: 2003-02-23

Peter:
>If that were truly (using a more conventional spelling) the case,
>then we could not hear the difference between words with voiced
>medial /t/ and those with medial /d/. But in dialects which do
>voice medial /t/, speakers distinguish readily between the two.

Hunh? Do you have an example of what you mean?


- gLeN


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