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

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,

It seems that an aspirate has the air flowing *while* the consonant is being pronounced, without there necessarily even being a closure that's released. No, an aspirate consonant has a distinct sound of escaping air before the following

{d} is defined by the International Phonetic Association to be ... it seems doubtful that the consonant should be called plosive. It seems to me that you're confusing plosives and aspirates. I don't think so. The New Shorter Oxford says

Both conditions are necessary.We may now list the rule that adds glottal stops before syllable final /p, t, k/, as in pronunications of "tip, pit, kick" as (tI?p, pI?t, kI?k)... This rule does not apply to all varieties of English. Some

Ladefoged gives 22 "rules for English allophones" in the second edition of A Course in Phonetics (pp. 82-88), not all of which apply to all varieties of English. Granted. Summarizing, Selecting, 9) a glottal stop is inserted before

Hi everybody, In one of my classes, I am doing ... post it here. Thank you in advance for any help! If you think about the meanings of "allophone" and "phoneme," you'll realize this is an impossible request. What

I don't know from linguistics and phonetics (we're sending Young ... a vowel, however, it turns into a flap sound (*) In that case, "at the sight of" and "at the side of" become exactly the same pronunciation? Oh, no.