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Hans51 Posted 3 years ago
Grammar

How to pronounce the word garden

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.

  

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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?

  • 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?
  • ), which forms the whole last syllable.
  • 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

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