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Yambenjamin Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

A confusion about the /d/ sound

Hi,

I have a confusion about the /d/ sound. When I watched films and listened to radios, I could only hear the /d/ sound in the syllable coda position like a /t/ sound which is voiceless and clearly aspirated, like in the word "good", it is like /goot/ instead. Is not the /d/ sound supposed to be voiced and unaspirated? Is this about the fortis and lenis rules? Or I just mis-listened?

Hope someone can help me. I have been troubled with this for quite a long time? eager for right answers. Thanks so much.

Y Ren
  

Top answer

If you're hearing goot , with a voiceless, aspirated t , instead of good , then either the speaker is not saying it right or you are not hearing it right. Utterance final /d/ is usually unreleased. Maybe you are confusing an unreleased d with a t .

— CalifJim

  • If you're hearing goot , with a voiceless, aspirated t , instead of good , then either the speaker is not saying it right or you are not hearing it right.
  • Utterance final /d/ is usually unreleased.
  • Maybe you are confusing an unreleased d with a t .
  • CJ
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If you're hearing goot, with a voiceless, aspirated t, instead of good, then either the speaker is not saying it right or you are not hearing it right.

Utterance final /d/ is usually unreleased. Maybe you are confusing an unreleased d with a t.

CJ
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Hi CJ

I think you are right. I am confusing with an unreleased /d/ with a /t/, but what does an unreleased /d/ sound like?

Y Ren
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yambenjaminwhat does an unreleased /d/ sound like?
Like the /d/ in good.

CJ
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