Garden['g??rdn]
Does the d sound become a flap sound like the d sound in daddy [ 'dædi ]?
What do you native English speakers think and how do you speak the word garden?
Thank you so much as usual.
Hans51 Does the d sound become a flap sound like the d sound in daddy [ 'dædi ]? No. ] ), which ends the first syllable, followed by syllabic n (n?
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Hans51Does the d sound become a flap sound like the d sound in daddy [ 'dædi ]?
No. It's an unreleased d ( [d?] ), which ends the first syllable, followed by syllabic n (n? ), which forms the whole last syllable.
['gard?.n?]
The same pattern occurs in words like "hidden"
( [ 'h?d?.n? ] ).
CJ