tE or dE

I never had to use this before - at least not in English -, but you can listen to its pronunciation here:

http://www.answers.com/topic/yosemite-valley

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Thank you YoHf,

How about this one:

http://www.webster.com/dictionary/yosemite

It seems to me I hear 'dE' sound.

Thank you, YoHf,

how abou this one:

http://www.webster.com/dictionary/yosemite

I hear the 'dE' sound.

That's the t sound in some American accents. It's a tapped t rather than a d.

Hi nona the brit,

You wrote:

It's a tapped t rather than a d.

Could you tell me how a flapped or tapped /t/ is different from a /d/?

Englishuser

Hi BW2/3

The Webster's recording sounds more natural to my American ear than the other recording does. And yes, the 't' does sound very much like a 'd'. In the US you'll hear the 't' pronounced in a similar way in words such as forty, dirty, naughty, little, etc. However, in the word fourteen, for example, the 't' is pronounced the same as t

Hi Yankee,

You wrote:

In the US you'll hear the 't' pronounced in a similar way in words such as forty, dirty, naughty, little, etc. However, in the word fourteen, for example, the 't' is pronounced the same as the 't' in two.

Perhaps you could tell us when we may flap our t's (?).

Englishuser

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intervocalic_alveolar_flapping

/t/ is flapped after a vowel, /r/ and sometimes /l/, and before an unstressed syllable.

I'm not sure that there is much difference between flapped /t/ and /d/ in pairs like "latter" - "ladder". These words are distin

Hi Alienvoord,

You said:

/t/ is flapped after a vowel

How do you explain that the 't' in 'guitar' is never flapped?

Englishuser

"before an unstressed syllable"

in "guitar" the stress is on the second syllable.