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Jossx Posted 17 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation
Omission of /t/ sound in fast informal speech
Hi everyone! I've read people can omit /t/ sounds when speaking in informal situations. Could you help me?
What do you know about this? Is this true?
There's even a rule saying " In informal speech we sometimes omit the /t/ when the ending of one word and the beginning of another form a consonant group.
For example
I went shopping.
it would be: /ahy wehn chopin/ instead of /ahy wehnT choping/
She just wanted to know you better.
/shee juhs wahnid tuh noh juh behdehr/
What other examples could you give me? Is this right? It's actually hard for me to pronounce consonant clusters in fast speech. It'd be great if I can "shorten some forms in order to make my speaking easier, but I don't want to do it "illegaly" so I was wondering if this is a good application.
Thanks a lot!!
What do you know about this? Is this true?
There's even a rule saying " In informal speech we sometimes omit the /t/ when the ending of one word and the beginning of another form a consonant group.
For example
I went shopping.
it would be: /ahy wehn chopin/ instead of /ahy wehnT choping/
She just wanted to know you better.
/shee juhs wahnid tuh noh juh behdehr/
What other examples could you give me? Is this right? It's actually hard for me to pronounce consonant clusters in fast speech. It'd be great if I can "shorten some forms in order to make my speaking easier, but I don't want to do it "illegaly" so I was wondering if this is a good application.
Thanks a lot!!
Top answer
Hi, assuming you are talking about American English, it's often not pronounced in NT when the following vowel is not stressed. Not everyone does that, and the rule doesn't apply to every case, I'm afraid. d twenty, ninety, etc.
- Hi, assuming you are talking about American English, it's often not pronounced in NT when the following vowel is not stressed.
- Not everyone does that, and the rule doesn't apply to every case, I'm afraid.
- d twenty, ninety, etc.
- n?
- t It's not something informal, as far as I know, it's just a feature of most American dialects.
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Hi,
assuming you are talking about American English, it's often not pronounced in NT when the following vowel is not stressed. Not everyone does that, and the rule doesn't apply to every case, I'm afraid. Anyway, in some words like the following ones it's extremely common to leave it out (and not pronouncing it is also suggested in accent reduction courses):
wanted => w?n?d
tw
assuming you are talking about American English, it's often not pronounced in NT when the following vowel is not stressed. Not everyone does that, and the rule doesn't apply to every case, I'm afraid. Anyway, in some words like the following ones it's extremely common to leave it out (and not pronouncing it is also suggested in accent reduction courses):
wanted => w?n?d
tw
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jossxit would be: /ahy wehn chopin/This doesn't strike me as correct, though it may sound that way to a non-native speaker of English. went simply has an unreleased t, as is true of many words with final t.
wannid for wanted is so common in the U.S. as to be nearly standard.
If you really want a lot of details on the pronunciat
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CalifJim, how about the /d/ sound? When we say the word "boardroom", do we pronounce the /d/ sound after the R?
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Hi Anon
I definitely say the /d/ but it probably sounds more connected to the /r/ that follows it: boar-droom
I definitely say the /d/ but it probably sounds more connected to the /r/ that follows it: boar-droom
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AnonymousCalifJim, how about the /d/ sound? When we say the word "boardroom", do we pronounce the /d/ sound after the R?I pronounce the d, yes.
CJ
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