Timeline for Why isn't the T in "relative" flapped?
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| Nov 21, 2018 at 23:55 | answer | added | A. Ward | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 18, 2018 at 10:23 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/953935882729476096 | ||
| Jan 18, 2018 at 1:15 | comment | added | Greg Lee | If there is no secondary stress on the last syllable of "relative", probably the vowel of that syllable will reduce to schwa. So try [ɹɛləɾəv] and see how that sounds. | |
| Jan 17, 2018 at 22:55 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | Shouldn't that be [ɹɛləɾɪv] not /ɹɛləɾɪv/? You appear to be talking about pronunciations. English has no /ɾ/ phoneme. Rather, phonemic /t/ has many possible allophones, like [tʰ] or [t] or [ɾ] or [ʔ]. Those are all still /t/. | |
| Jan 17, 2018 at 22:37 | answer | added | herisson | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jan 17, 2018 at 21:41 | history | edited | Araucaria - Him | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 17, 2018 at 16:44 | comment | added | Araucaria - Him | I'm looking, but I haven't been able to find any dictionary at all that gives a secondary stress on relative. I've checked about ten so far. Could you give an example of one? (You might be interested in the new dictionary comment in my answer regarding the transcription of flapped /t/!) | |
| Jan 17, 2018 at 16:28 | history | edited | David Haim | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 17, 2018 at 16:27 | comment | added | Araucaria - Him | A short but unimportant note - I'm a hairy bloke with a (temporary) beard! (My pen-name is a homage to the late Araucaria, aka John Galbraith Graham, who was a legendary, witty, humanist, cryptic crossword writer for the Guardian newspaper :) Nice detective work, btw! | |
| Jan 17, 2018 at 16:23 | history | edited | David Haim | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 17, 2018 at 16:09 | history | edited | David Haim | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 17, 2018 at 14:52 | answer | added | Araucaria - Him | timeline score: 6 | |
| Dec 22, 2017 at 12:11 | vote | accept | David Haim | ||
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| Dec 21, 2017 at 14:08 | comment | added | Hot Licks | @Spencer - So far as I can tell, I pronounce the word in "He's a relative of mine" and "It's all relative" exactly the same. | |
| Dec 21, 2017 at 13:09 | comment | added | Spencer | The crazy thing is, there is a flap in "It's all relative". Perhaps it is. | |
| Dec 21, 2017 at 13:00 | comment | added | aparente001 | I agree that U.S. speakers don't flap relative used as a noun, but I think it could often be flapped in "relative to your last question etc." | |
| Dec 21, 2017 at 12:31 | answer | added | Peter Shor | timeline score: 9 | |
| Dec 21, 2017 at 11:04 | answer | added | KarlG | timeline score: 3 | |
| Dec 21, 2017 at 9:27 | history | asked | David Haim | CC BY-SA 3.0 |