X-Digest-Num: 53 Message-ID: <44114.53.207.959273824@eGroups.com> Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 10:01:28 PST From: "michael helsem" Subject: Re: accent X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 207 Content-Length: 353 Lines: 10 it can be assumed that native-lojbanist english speakers would convert the phonemes (h)(short a)(voiceless th)(voiced th) into lojban's (x)(e)(t)(d). that's what happens with natural bilinguals. also, they might have trouble with some of english's voiced/unvoiced consonant combinations, & i imagine would insert a schwa accordingly.