Timeline for Do Americans pronounce the letter "t" in the end of words like a "d"?
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| Aug 16, 2019 at 21:31 | answer | added | Hot Licks | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 16, 2019 at 16:34 | comment | added | Araucaria - Him | @JanusBahsJacquet .. reinforcement, nasal release etc, etc, etc ...) | |
| Aug 16, 2019 at 16:34 | comment | added | Araucaria - Him | @JanusBahsJacquet Sure. It's still a good question: How is word-final T pronounced in Gen Am? . Reason is that a native speaker who hadn't investigated might reckon there was only one, or perhaps two ways. Of course there are about 7 or 8 major possibilites-due to /t/ being an alveolar consonant-including: a normal unvoiced alveolar plosive, a dental plosive, an ejective, no-audible release, a voiced tap, a complete elision, a glottal stop, being part of a coalescent assimilation. 'Course there are then probably another twenty to thirty allophones (nasalised tap, lateral release, glottal ... | |
| Aug 16, 2019 at 16:07 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | @Araucaria My first comment was the result of being distracted halfway through and forgetting to post the rest of it, noting that pauses and stress distribution are what matter, not words. | |
| Aug 16, 2019 at 15:57 | comment | added | Araucaria - Him | @JanusBahsJacquet I beg to differ from your original comment. Basically you've conceded that, yes, it's pronounced the same very, very often! | |
| Aug 16, 2019 at 11:51 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | @Peter Sorry, that was sloppily worded. It’s only found in the interior of pause units (i.e., a group of words said with no pause between them), before an unstressed syllable, regardless of the actual location in the individual word – even an initial t can be reduced if the first syllable is completely unstressed, as in to or today (“I went there today” will often have a flapped t). | |
| Aug 16, 2019 at 11:47 | comment | added | Peter Shor | @Janus: it definitely can be found on the end of words. For example, the /t/ in I put it back. Not at the end of phrases, though, or words pronounced by themselves, which may be what you were thinking of. | |
| Aug 16, 2019 at 11:42 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | @GEdgar I would say it’s only found in the interior of words, never word-finally. Bet and bed are not homophones in any dialect of AmE that I’m familiar with, though better and bedder are in many. | |
| Aug 16, 2019 at 11:40 | comment | added | Hot Licks | Examples, please. | |
| Aug 16, 2019 at 10:30 | comment | added | GEdgar | This features is also sometimes found in the interior of words. | |
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| Aug 16, 2019 at 8:42 | comment | added | Andrew Leach♦ | I think some examples narrowing down your question would be beneficial. I'm sure that a sentence such as "I like it" does not end in /d/. | |
| Aug 16, 2019 at 8:34 | history | asked | Edinburgh1 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |