Let's listen to the pronunciation of the letter "t" for these words in thefreedictionary.com Click on the flags to hear USA and UK accents. My phonetic notation is in truespel marked with ~ elevator - "t" sounds

<Where are the books that teach spoken English ? I'm a go there? What a ya doin? Ah'll see ya domorrow. > They're on there way: English Pronunciation in Use Intermediate I doubt that's really comprehensive. I think I once took a look at that

Language teachers, could you tell us about some ways in which you are providing "learners with the tools to cope with 'real-life' communication ..."? Here in my country, they don't. And I heard it's so in most other

I’m a native British speaker. I would tend to transcribe the same vowel in ‘train’ and ‘danger’ – , and would also use this for and ; ‘missing’ would finish with unless you’re aiming for a strong London accent, and pity would have a rather than

Some things to keep in mind: ? = glottal stop @ = ə I don't know what your dialect sounds like, but I can tell you how mine differs from others: -Notice that I use lots of glottal stops (the ?). If your dialect pronounces them as "t's", then

Very nice, thank you. It's precisely what I needed to study the finer points of the phonetic alphabet. I have a question though. What is the reasoning behind terminology like "h-dropping" and "glottal reinforcement"? I mean, is there a

I am a native English speaker from central England and about a year ago moved to the north east of England. I'm curious to know if any other languages use the distinctive combined glottal stop and consonant sound that is common here, and what the

Allophones of /t/ in Standard American English I find these symbols the easiest to use without access to an IPA font. They also have the advantage that you can place them right into an English word to illustrate where they are used. (t'oma

As far as I know, when a French word begins with a vowel, the glottal stop precedes it. This does not happen in English, but many dialects (e.g. the urban dialects of London, Edinburgh, etc.) use the glottal stop in words such as "little,

Being a Brit and hearing "glottal stopping" on the increase in the UK, I have 2 questions about glottal stops: 1) Is the glottal stop ever used in American or Australian English? 2) Is there an international phonetic symbol for the glottal