What is flapping in phonetics?

Flapping or tapping, also known as alveolar flapping, intervocalic flapping, or t-voicing, is a phonological process found in many varieties of English, especially North American, Ulster, Australian and New Zealand English, whereby the voiceless alveolar stop consonant phoneme /t/ is pronounced as a voiced alveolar …

What are some allophones of T in English?

The American English /t/ includes the following four common allophones:

• Remain a regularly aspirated ‘t sound’ /t/
• Be pronounced like a quick /d/ (also called an alveolar tap) represented as /t̬/
• Become a glottal stop /ʔ/
• Be silent (omitted) /t/

Which word would normally be pronounced with a flapped t?

Words in which you can pronounce a normal t or a nasalized flap t, but not a silent t: ninety, carpenter, warranted, patented. Words in which you can pronounce a normal t, a nasalized flap t, or a silent t: dentist, twenty, winter, painting, pointed, bounty.

Why does the T sound like an R?

It’s no surprise that it sounds like a “r” to us because IT IS a “r” in Spanish. Therefore, we use the same phoneme to represent different written letters, so it’s not a matter of consideration.

What is Allophone in phonology?

Allophones. Allophones are the linguistically non-significant variants of each phoneme. In other words a phoneme may be realised by more than one speech sound and the selection of each variant is usually conditioned by the phonetic environment of the phoneme.

Are flaps Sonorants?

The standard SPE analysis is that a flap is a sonorant stop, and the feature assignment is [+cons,-cont,+son,+coronal] for a generic lingual tap: then you add other features to specify a particular coronal place of articulation. Features like lateral, nasal, voice etc. can be independently varied.

What are the allophones of K?

[k] and [k+] are allophones of the phoneme /k/ in English. Allophones never occur in the same environment. [k+] occurs before front vowels and [k] appears before back vowels or the end of the word or before consonants, so everywhere else.

What are the allophones of P?

The phoneme /p/, therefore, has at least two allophones: [p] and [pʰ].

How do you pronounce T after r?

The T is pronounced as a Flap T when it comes after an R and before a vowel, like in the word ‘party’.

When is the /T/ a regular allophone?

The /t/ is a regular, aspirated /t/ when it is the first sound of a word or a stressed syllable (or does not fit into patterns 2-4 below). This rule overrides all other /t/ allophone patterns. In the examples below, the /t/ is pronounced normally because the sound begins a stressed syllable.

When to use the ‘flap t’?

In general, here are some of the rules for when to use the ‘flap t’: If a ‘t’ is between two vowels, whether in a word or between two words, it will be pronounced as a ‘soft d.’ ‘Flap t’ will often occur between a vowel and a ‘dark l’ such as in “little” or “bottle.”

How do you make the allophones of t sound aspirated?

Let’s start with some allophones of /t/ that are part of a larger pattern. In the episode where I talked about aspirated /t/, I also talked about aspirated /p/, in words like “purse.” To make the /p/ sound, you put your lips together, and let the air pressure build up behind them for a moment.

What is the meaning of allophones in English?

It comes from the Greek words for “other” and “sound,” and refers to the specific ways of pronouncing a phoneme. So aspirated /t/, the glottal stop, the alveolar flap, and the CH sound are all allophones of the phoneme /t/. Depending on how you count them, English has about 40 total phonemes. Some dialects have more than others.