By Phonetics, Allophones

CalifJim wrote:Rhyming friend to stand sounds peculiar to me, and somewhat Texan, perhaps. It's definitely not standard. Thanks.Well, I'm not an expert on accents... but did you listen to the audio clip? Would you say pronouncing "again" that way sounds southern? I think I've heard that...

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'omato, stat'istics, wi.tness, bottom,...

You cannot aspirate a t (or any letter) at the beginning of a word, because aspirating means letting out all your breath. Actually, no. Aspiration is typically found in the word-initial position. In fact, this is from the Wikipedia article you cite: English voiceless stop consonants are...

TAKEN FROM wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwa In English, the SCHWA sound is considered the equivalent, or ALLOPHONE (SEE BELOW), of "no vowel at all." ALLOPHONE In phonetics, an allophone is one of several similar phones or speech sounds, that belong to the same phoneme. Each...