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

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
the American R approximant, and * is the flap-r of Spanish "r".
A Hispanic-American friend of mine named "Taira" usually
gets her name heard as "Tide-a" by anglophones.

Most dialects of British English, including RP, don't have this flap.
Note that voicing differences are lost: both /t/ and /d/ are flapped.

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