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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation

Pronunciation of /t/

Hi Americans,

I would like to ask, when you hear the word "writer" pronounced with /d/ sound and the word "rider", can you distinguish between them?
  

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Mostly the difference is known from the context, but it seems to me that the d in rider has a bit more consonant length than the t in writer.

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  • Mostly the difference is known from the context, but it seems to me that the d in rider has a bit more consonant length than the t in writer.
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Mostly the difference is known from the context, but it seems to me that the d in rider has a bit more consonant length than the t in writer.
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Hi

I'm not American, but I'd say the answer is 'no', you cannot tell the difference. There are bicycle riders and bicycle writers and you can only tell the difference from the context in which the word is spoken

Dave
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thanks, guys. I really want to know when I say the two words alone, without any context, is there any difference? It seems that even Americans can't distinguish them?
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Why would you want to say the two words alone, without any context?
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because I'm working on phonology.I want to know what native speakers feel about the two sounds.
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Anonymous because I'm working on phonology.I want to know what native speakers feel about the two sounds.
Fair enough, but words are often pronounced more 'carefully' in isolation than in natural speech. I suspect that even those people who pronounce the two words in the same way in normal speech might make at least a slight difference in the more formal situa
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In my dialect, the "i" is different, so the "t" is moot ("d" both times). "Rider" uses a dead-center long "i", and "writer" uses a compound vowel sound.
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AnonymousI would like to ask, when you hear the word "writer" pronounced with /d/ sound and the word "rider", can you distinguish between them?
Of course! But that's because I grew up in the North Central area of the U.S., where the distinction can be heard.

It's the "i" that changes. It starts lower in the mouth and with the mouth more open /a/ whe
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CalifJim AnonymousI would like to ask, when you hear the word "writer" pronounced with /d/ sound and the word "rider", can you distinguish between them?Of course! But that's because I grew up in the North Central area of the U.S., where the distinction can be heard.It's the "i" that changes. It starts lower in the mouth and with the mouth more open /a/ when a voiced conson
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It's hugely interesting
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