Re: YAEPT: track

Charlie wrote:

> >veritosproject@... wrote:
>
> >How do you guys pronounce /track/?  I heard a couple Americans saying
> >[tSr\&k], and I was just wondering where that [S] came from.  I
> >actually pronounced it that way until recently, when I consciously
> >tried stopping.
>
> Boy, you never realize until someone points it out.  It's [tSr\&k] for
> me.  I tried a few others: trap, train, trunk, etc.  They all begin
> with [tS], unless I'm very careful.
Me too, unless careful... though the [S] is very weak/transitional-- I think
Elliott's comment about the voicelessness of the r is relevant, as I don't
do a noticeable [Z] in initial dr-.  Also, if you move the tongue tip back a
bit to the hard palate, the [S] goes away. Curious, eh?