Date:  Sat, 5 Mar 1994 14:09:07 -0700

From:  Rudy Troike <RTROIKE[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ARIZVMS.BITNET>

Subject: Re: Epiphany on the Tennis Court



Natalie--

    Happens to me every time I teach phonemic transcription, and play-act

at producing [tEn] for the benefit of my class. It is an insidious thing.

Perceptually, though, I often have to do a double-take on certain person's

pronunciation of [tEn] as /taen/, since my phonemic filter captures the [En]

as necessarily /aen/. Sometimes after a bout of phonemic transcription,

I even start restoring the long-lost /h/ before /w/!

    --Rudy Troike [rtroike[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ccit.arizona.edu]