Voiced/voiceless stops in English,was: Re: Pronouncing Tokana...

Raymond Brown wrote:
> Some in north west England have [r\] (alveolar approximant) for medial /t/
> and would, presumably, pronounce 'at all' as [@r\O:l]
ONLY for medial /t/, not for medial /d/?  Interesting.  That's a rather
odd change, I think, stop to approximate.

> Among generations younger than me, medial & final /t/ is commonly
> pronounced [?] in many parts of Britain, so we have [@?O:l]
I've heard a few people use that around HERE in Florida, for example,
just today I heard the name Matt Allen pronounced as something like
/m&?&l@n/, I've also heard things like /bV?@n/ for "button" and /dI?n=t/
for "didn't"

> Others have [@tO:l] with out aspiration, or [@t?O:l].  And, I suspect there
> are other variations, but 'a tall...' is IME generally distinct from 'at
> all'.
Presumably because of the stressing "a táll" vs. "at all"

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