Re: [tied] More nonsense: Is English /d/ truely voiced?
From: P&G Message: 18985 Date: 2003-02-21
>The major difference between /d/ and /t/
> in English is truely voicing.
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.