... the tip of the tongue or with the blade of the tongue. And the tongue can push against the back orfront of the alveolar ridge (the ridge directly behind the teeth), or the teeth. The resulting ... in English,they will all be recognized as /s/. Confusion begins to appear only if the tongue moves between the teeth, since at that point it crosses the lineinto the phonetic territory of /θ/(thick, ... fact, there is evidence that on the whole women tend to pronounce thisconsonant closer to the teeth than men (Strand 1999).63 Linking the linguistic to the socialof this phoneme does tend to...