Talk:Voiceless alveolar plosive

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[edit] Using default font entity code considered potentially ugly

Please see Talk:Voiced bilabial plosive --James S. 19:03, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Occurrence of aspirated vs. non-aspirated /t/

"When /t/ occurs at the beginning of a word or a stressed syllable, like in try, senatorial, or today, then it is always aspirated." -- This is a bit oversimplified and inaccurate. As seen at Glottal_stop#In_English, in some dialects glottal stop can be found as the allophone of /t/ in some initial positions; in my idiolect at least, "today" in "Where did you go today?" can start with the flap allophone of /t/ (but if "today" is emphasized, it's usually aspirated).

"When /t/ occurs in a consonant cluster following [s], like in stop, strain, or register, then it is always unaspirated." -- Also not exactly true, in my experience. Words like "mistreatment" seem to often be pronounced with an aspirated /t/. Morpheme boundaries may have some influence here; I'm not sure if this is original research or not. 24.159.255.29 03:47, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Flap R

Should the American English practice of replacing t's with flap r's be included in the English section?—Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.165.87.237 (talk • contribs)

See the new style guidelines. There shouldn't even be an English section. Ƶ§œš¹ _{[aɪm ˈfɻɛ̃ⁿdˡi]} 09:48, 12 August 2007 (UTC)