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access email| L2 ENGLISH INTERDENTAL SUBSTITUTIONS: SUMMARY T he
thing I asked about concerned the fact that L2 Englishes with
similar L1 phoneme inventories that include [f] [s] and [t] etc.
'select' different realisations of TH and DH (e.g. Afrikaans
'fing', German 'sing' and Xhosa I found out the following
(references at the end): An extensive summary and discussions of
interdental substitution appeared on the Linguist List in 1996
(Vol-7-1108; Vol-7-859; Vol-7-1073; Vol-7-1164). 1. Castilian
Spanish speakers, which have /th/ but no predorsal /s/, and [dh]
is as an allophone of /d/ (there are no voiced fricatives), use
/th/ for Eng. /th/ and /d<>dh/ according to the context, for
Eng. /dh/. Non-Castilian Spanish speakers, which lack /th/ but
have a predorsal /s/, use /s/ for /th/, and also /d<>dh/ for the
voiced counterpart. All Spanish dialects also have /f/. 2.
Curiously, European French systematically has /s/ and /z/ for
the English dental fri