Timeline for can I omit the "d,b,g" sounds in a sentence?
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| Jun 8 at 9:28 | comment | added | An IELTS Learner | Thanks a lot for all your advice. You are really kind and helpful. | |
| Jun 8 at 8:17 | comment | added | sumelic | @AnIELTSLearner: I'm not sure. If you can produce longer and shorter vowels in this kind of context, it will help, but otherwise you can just try to produce a voiced consonant [d] vs. a voiceless consonant [t]. | |
| Jun 8 at 3:09 | comment | added | An IELTS Learner | I see. I find enunciating longer and shorter sounds like these correctly extremely difficult to master. Do you often see non-native speakers pronounce these sounds clearly enough to see the difference? | |
| Jun 7 at 22:09 | comment | added | sumelic | @AnIELTSLearner: For comparision, while I might transcribe "mad king" as [mæˑg̊kʰɪˑŋ] (as described here), I would transcribe "fat king" as something like [fæˀkkʰɪˑŋ]: a syllable that ends in /t/ has a shorter vowel than a syllable that ends in /d/, and /t/ tends to have more glottalization. Another pair of examples would be "mad bat" vs. "fat bat" as [mæˑdbæˀt] or [mæˑbbæˀt] vs. [fæˀtbæˀt], [fæˀpbæˀt], [fæˀtb̥æˀt] or [fæˀpb̥æˀt]. | |
| Jun 7 at 14:08 | comment | added | An IELTS Learner | I suppose this part--"The sound /t/, which is the voiceless equivalent to /d/, may also assimilate in place"--is the answer to my question about the difference between "it'd" and "id". But it's a bit obscure to me. Could you explain it in simpler language? I think in terms of pronunciation, giving examples is a great way to clear it up. | |
| Jun 9, 2016 at 8:12 | vote | accept | Tim | ||
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| Jun 6, 2016 at 17:20 | history | answered | sumelic | CC BY-SA 3.0 |