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Anonymous

#272564 Tue, 26 Sep 06 04:40 PM

I want to know how to pronounce these sentences:

They develop the telephone.

They developed the telephone.

How can I differenciate the present form from the past one ?

I know that the context is important, but If I did not have context, how would I tell one from the other?

I appreciate your help.

Anonymous

#272780 Wed, 27 Sep 06 12:24 AM

They do sound quite different, but it might take a bit of familiarity to hear it.

developed sounds like developT

So the second sentence has a strong T sound followed by 'th' of the telephone.

The first sentence has no T sound between the p and the 'th' sound.

Anonymous

Marvin A.

#301942 Fri, 08 Dec 06 06:20 PM

The first one "develop" is pronounced with an unreleased "p", the second is said with an unaspirated "p" followed by a glottal stop. The word "the" has nothing to do with the previous word and doesn't affect the pronuncation.

Marvin A.

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