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

From:<bjm10@...>
Date:Tuesday, February 1, 2000, 19:16
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.