t / Same phenomenon in words like "marzipan", where the /z/ sound (as in "zoo") becomes the sound /
/ as in "vision."Have you noticed a difference too?
vendredi 15 juin 2007
phonemes and stuff
I have noticed that some people in America tend to pronounce certain words a little more different than others, and I am not talking about regional accents here. For example, the "s" sound in "last" sometimes sounds more like sh, as "in last year," where the word "last" sounds closer to this: /l t /
Same phenomenon in words like "marzipan", where the /z/ sound (as in "zoo") becomes the sound // as in "vision."
Have you noticed a difference too?
t / Same phenomenon in words like "marzipan", where the /z/ sound (as in "zoo") becomes the sound /
/ as in "vision."Have you noticed a difference too?
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I don't know how they say it down the States, but here the T's are very soft. In Ottawa and water, they sound like soft D's (I don't know how to write that sound in IPA).
shit. I didn't mean to post it twice.
Yeah, same here in the States. But the soft /t/ is consistent. I mean, everybody here pronounces it that way, so I imagine it's part of the accent. But for my examples (marzipan), it doesn't seem to be the result of an accent. The way this pronounciation is distributed across the country seems random.
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