Timeline for Is there a term for the letter T not being pronounced when at the end of a word?
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| Jan 11 at 18:38 | history | reopened | herisson pronunciation Users with the pronunciation badge or a synonym can single-handedly close pronunciation questions as duplicates and reopen them as needed. | ||
| Aug 26, 2021 at 22:46 | comment | added | willboudle | Also, my question was closed and considered a duplicate of a question regarding Soft T's, which sound like a D, which is explicitly what I said I am not talking about. I am talking about glottal T. Which is heard when say words like button, eaten, gotten, written, startT, mountain, fountain, important. My button sounds like 'buh-in'. Here's another glottal T joke we came up with. Knock Knock, Who's there? I eep. I eep who. Yuck you do? that's disgusting. | |
| Aug 26, 2021 at 22:27 | comment | added | willboudle | I do not have a speech impediment, although I am from New England and do say "wicked" and depending on the company, will colloquially say "ain't". Whilst not a full "Boston accent" locally, if I travel elsewhere, you would think I "pahk my cah in havahd yahd" . One common trait among my region though is that we do speak allegro speech and am often told to slow down when I visit the south. Having spent a little more time, I believe T-glottalization is the accurate term I was looking for I would say backup and back up with the same cadence, but I do pronounce my g's. Also the to would be t' | |
| Aug 26, 2021 at 5:16 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | @PcMan Please go read up on what you were directed to. You really do not understand this, and don't even understand that you do not understand it. | |
| Aug 26, 2021 at 4:02 | comment | added | PcMan | @tchrist So you believe that "backup", "bat cup" and "bag up" are the SAME WORD? So if I ask you to "Bag up your backup tapes and take them back up to the second floor", you will be terribly confused? My co-workers would not be confused, because we all use different sounds to say those three words. (We do not regularly use "bat cup" though, so it's hard to use in the same sentence.) | |
| Aug 26, 2021 at 3:05 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | @PcMan We do not put spaces between our words in connected speech, doncha know! What you've said to this poor fellow about a speech impediment is incredibly cruel and completely false. You are dangerously uninformed, even misinformed, so please study how people really talk; for starters, you will want to look up "allegro rules" or "fast speech rules" on Google Scholar. The phonological changes in real speech compared with citation forms are an entire field of linguistic study, far too extensive to cite here. Real people speak real English. They have no "speech impediment" while doing so. | |
| Aug 25, 2021 at 15:49 | history | closed |
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Duplicate of Why does /t/ after a consonant (ex: /ˈnaɪn.ti/) produce less air than /t/ at the beginning of word (ex: /ˈtaɪlænd/) or after a vowel (ex: /ˈraɪ.tər/)? | |
| Aug 25, 2021 at 10:35 | comment | added | PcMan | "both of those sound the samewhen I say them casually" indicates either a stiff local accent/dialect, or a speech impediment. There should be a clear tick sound at the end of "bat" in "bat cup", plus a short delay before the next word begins. | |
| Aug 25, 2021 at 9:01 | comment | added | gidds | It might help to indicate your region. In some regions there's a clear distinction between e.g. ‘buddy’ and ‘butty’. | |
| Aug 25, 2021 at 8:34 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Aug 25, 2021 at 8:25 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Aug 25, 2021 at 8:21 | answer | added | Nemo | timeline score: -1 | |
| Aug 25, 2021 at 6:18 | answer | added | herisson | timeline score: 6 | |
| Aug 25, 2021 at 2:12 | comment | added | John Lawler | The technical term is an unreleased T. There's also the unreleased P of yep and nope. There's probly an unreleased K too, but I can't think of an example. Since voiceless stops like /p, t, k/ can be held indefinitely, they don't need a release the way voiced stops like /b, d, ɡ/ do. | |
| Aug 25, 2021 at 0:47 | answer | added | un-index | timeline score: 1 | |
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| Aug 25, 2021 at 0:21 | history | asked | willboudle | CC BY-SA 4.0 |