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- ð → d shift in English - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The voiced dental fricative [ð] and the voiced coronal plosive [d] are similar sounds, but they did contrast in Old English However, [ð] did not contrast with the equivalent voiceless fricative [θ], so [ð] in Old English is not considered a phoneme, but an allophone of a dental fricative phoneme that was unspecified for voicing, which we could transcribe as þ (since the letter thorn
- When is it OK to pronounced a voiced th like a d instead of a ð ?
However this apparently only happens in certain situations What I am talking about here is not th-stopping as observed in some regional dialects, but instead the phenomenom that occurs for almost all native English speakers regardless of their region So when is it OK to pronounced a voiced th like a d instead of a ð ?
- Is there a rule for pronouncing “th” at the beginning of a word?
The reason for this is that in Old English and earlier forms of the Germanic languages, there was only a single interdental fricative, which alternately regularly between the voiceless form [θ] at the beginning of words and the voiced form [ð] in the middle of words
- z + ð = zdð ? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
A stop-like realization of ð as something like [d̪] or [d̪ð] is a common allophone in a number of accents, but it seems to be conditioned more strongly when ð is preceded by a plosive (this can be seen as a kind of assimilation) or when it is utterance-initial preceded by silence than when it is preceded by a fricative (like z )
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- Why was the th combination chosen for the th sound?
Given that the two "th" sounds don't actually sound like a combination of "t" and "h" why was that particular combination selected or become adopted by the majority ?
- Why are there no English nouns starting with th pronounced as ð ?
8 I just saw a claim that there are no nouns in English that start with "th" pronounced as ð , and I am convinced that is correct for at least Received Pronunciation, General American and Australian English In fact, there are very few words that start with ð at all, such as this, that and them
- Do native speakers really always pronounce the voiced th as a ð ?
This is why I say that this only seems to be the case for certain words containing the voiced th like (the, those, that, other etc ) while in other words like (bathe, breathe, loathe etc ) the voiced th seems to be indeed always pronounced as a ð
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