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

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.