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

From:Brad Coon <bcoon@...>
Date:Tuesday, February 1, 2000, 23:55
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. -- Brad Coon bcoon@imt.net PLEASE NOTE,NEW EMAIL ADDRESS If its tourist season, why can't we shoot them?