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

bjm10@CORNELL.EDU wrote:
>
> On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Padraic Brown wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, John Cowan wrote:
> >
> > >Vasiliy Chernov wrote:
> > >
> > >> E. g., what happens in examples like:
> > >>
> > >> a tall man
> > >> at all
> > >> a dawn
> > >> had altered
> > >>
> > >> - in American English?
> > >
> > >"A tall man" is pronounced with aspirated t, [@ thOl m&n].  The others
> > >are pronounced with a flap: [@*Ol], [@*On], [h&*OltRd], where R is
> >
> > Except for those of us that say [@ thal] for "at all". Careful speech
> > differs of course.
>
> And except for those of us who say [@ dOn], but still use a flap for the
> second and fourth.
And those of us don't use a flap in the fourth but do use the [d].
Originally from Northern Indiana, my dialect is a local variation
of the Chicago dialect.
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