Re: Aspirated stops vs. fricatives (was Re: Tit'xka (Pretty Long Post))

Tom Wier wrote:
> In any event, /t/ intervocalically in most American dialects is a voiced tap,
> which in many languages, like Spanish, is an allophone of /r/.  In most
> American dialects, this does sound like a [d] to some extent, but the fact
> that it's still considered an allophone of /t/, and not /d/, is shown by the
> fact that people will actually say things like [stVt_hi:] for "study" (as I
> have personally heard) when trying to emphasize the fact (though it might
> be said that this is just an example of hypercorrection), where the <d> in
> 'study' is also a voiced tap.
I think that is just hypercorrection and that study is [stVdi:].
Americans trying to do an English accent seem to fall prey to this at
times, like in a commercial they play on the radio around here where a
guy does says [mai leiti] for "my lady."