Editing Newfoundland English (section)

====Slit fricative t ====
The phoneme {{IPA|/t/}} at the end of words or between vowels is pronounced as in Hiberno-English. The most common pronunciation is as a [[voiceless alveolar non-sibilant fricative]], also known as a "slit fricative." The phoneme does not have a separate symbol in IPA and can be transcribed as {{IPA|[θ̠]}} (a [[Relative articulation#Advanced and retracted|retracted]] [[voiceless dental fricative]]). Thus, "hitting" {{IPA|[ˈɪθ̠ɪŋ]}} is distinguished from "hissing" {{IPA|[ˈɪsɪŋ]}} only by the fricative in the latter word being pronounced with clenched teeth (see [[sibilant consonant]]) and being [[laminal consonant|laminal]], rather than the [[apical consonant|apical]] sound of the slit fricative in "hitting". As the "th" sounds are stopped in Newfoundland, there is no confusion between the slit {{IPA|/t/}} and the {{IPA|/θ/}} sound. As a result, it is very common to hear "thing" being pronounced as "ting," as is mentioned above. The slit fricative /t/, which replaces the usual Canadian /θ/, acts as a marker of Newfoundlanders' identity.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Van Herk |first=Gerard |date=2010 |title=Identity Marking and Affiliation in an Urbanizing Newfoundland Community |journal=Canadian English: A Linguistic Reader |pages=139}}</ref>