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The Read Lexicon: a spelling dictionary for the Shavian alphabet following the rhotic Received Pronunciation standard.
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Update shavian.info/spelling/ to include info t vs d #26

Closed trosel closed 1 year ago

trosel commented 1 year ago

It would be nice if https://www.shavian.info/spelling/ included information on T's that become D in various situations.

Water Italy (vs Italian)

Flap-t (/d/ instead of /t/) often happens between vowel sounds or after a vowel and before a liquid.

If the T is a flap-t, it is still written with a T letter in Shavian?

Shavian-info commented 1 year ago

I believe it is still phonemically /t/. The change you speak about occurs in US and Australian English but not in some other varieties (e.g. RP). It is not phonemically significant, i.e. it does not change the meaning, so both sounds in US and Australian English are represented by 𐑑.

trosel commented 1 year ago

Wouldn’t it be equally as phonemically significant as the past tense d changing to t? Or the plural s changing to z?

Shavian-info commented 1 year ago

It's a little different. The past tense and plural sound changes are pretty universal across all varieties of English. And the distinctions with the past tense and plural can be phonemically important, e.g the difference between 'canned' and 'cant', 'hence' and 'hens', etc.