Re: Questions (mostly about phonemics)

--- "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@...> wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 07:08:24PM -0800, Adam
> Walker wrote:
> > --- "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@...> wrote:
> >
> > > (Off-topic note: that's why Pinyin makes me
> cringe... writing
> > > unaspirated /t/ as [d] makes it extremely prone
> for foreigners to
> > > mispronounce.)
> > >
> >
> > And writing aspitated-t as [th] is better for
> avoiding
> > mispronunciations?
>
> At least /th/ can be understood as [t] followed by
> [h], which "makes
> sense" as indicating aspirated [t]. Whereas the
> difference between /t/
> and /d/ has to be learned independently.
>
>
Except any English speaker will see it and
automatically pronounce it /T/. I even found myself,
fully knowing what all those h's meant trying to
pronounce "th" as /T/ occasionally from force of
habit.

Adam

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