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Kooyeen Posted 19 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation

Final T, glottal stop or not?

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00I know a final T in American English is usually a glottal stop when it comes after a vowel sound. I'm not sure when it comes after some other sounds, though...02br
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00net - gl. stop, I know02br
00cart, short - ? I think it's a gl. stop too02br
00connect - ? I think this is not a gl. stop02br
00bolt - ? Umm, this is in between, almost a glottal stop but not completely, it's a slight t.02br
00coast, cost - ? Same as above02br
00count - ? Umm, the same as above, but maybe this is even more of a glottal stop.02br
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00Ok, I'm tired of giving examples, I think you understand what's the matter. Any opinion is highly appreciated. Thanks 050010id1
  

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0 Hi again,02br 00I'm so sorry, I should have read CalifJim's post about T's a little more carefully before posting. 02br 00I see that there's also a glottal stop after R's, so the t in "smart" or "cart" is held. 02br 00But reading that post I noticed that T's after other consonants are not supposed to be held.

— Kooyeen

  • 0 Hi again,02br 00I'm so sorry, I should have read CalifJim's post about T's a little more carefully before posting.
  • 02br 00I see that there's also a glottal stop after R's, so the t in "smart" or "cart" is held.
  • 02br 00But reading that post I noticed that T's after other consonants are not supposed to be held.
  • Is there really that difference?
  • 02br 00Actually, I tend to hold most consonants at the end of a word, and I noticed Ann Cook (author of "American Accent Training") tend to do the same.
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0 Hi again,02br
00I'm so sorry, I should have read CalifJim's post about T's a little more carefully before posting. 02br
00I see that there's also a glottal stop after R's, so the t in "smart" or "cart" is held. I see that there's a glottal stop (but sometimes it's not complete) after L and N, for example in "count" and "bolt".02br
00But reading that post I n
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0 You can do just an unreleased T or an unreleased T with a glottal stop. I don't have the statistics, but it seems to me that just the glottal stop is less common.02br
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00 I don't know what you mean by 01i00held02i00. You use that word a lot. Do you mean "held back", like unreleased?02br
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00 I hear more of a differenc
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0 Hi,02br
00thanks for the reply.02br
00By "held" I mean "unreleased", and by "unreleased" I mean "not pronounced", that is, a glottal stop. That term ("held") is fequently used in the book who helped me improve my pronunciation.02br
00Anyway, this is too complicated a subject to discuss in a forum. There are often many ways to pronounce the same thing, and mu
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00the less I think of what I say, the more I sound good, and the more I think of what I say, the more I find myself stuck12blockquote
10Ain't it the truth! Same here. Never ask a millipede to explain how he manages to get anywhere -- unless you want to watch him tie himself in knots.02br
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