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I'm not a native English speaker, but I picked up this sound while watching American RUclips as a kid. Been wondering what it is for a while, and here it is! Thanks!!
It was a sound that I was producing without paying attention. When I realized that it was something different, I started to search for it but I couldn't find what it is till now. Thanks for the video, it was really helpful!
Suggestion: when you give the phonological rule describing the "change," use square brackets for the sound: /t/ => [r]. The flap is a realization of the /t/ phoneme in those varieties of English, not its own phoneme. Do the same for the phonetic transcriptions in the table of examples.
in Spanish it is an R (soft ere) and it is the counterpart of the strong-vibrant one is what differentiates Caro (expensive) to Carro (Car) Pero (but) to Perro (dog)
Hello Ezequiel! Thank you for your question. Yes, we can flap the /r/ but it only occurs in some variants of English, e.g. in Scouse (Liverpool English) and conservative Northern England English, most Scottish English, some South African, Welsh, Indian and Irish English and early 20th century Received Pronunciation. But this is different to flapping of /t/ and /d/!
Well when you make a t sound you're building up pressure right? And the d sound is nearly the same thing but vocalized right? So are you kind of already making this vibration and just taping your tounge? Cause in English it is always between two vowels like better or water or in spanish pero is this right? It is easy to say those correctly but it's hard to just say the sound this guy says it's more like a t but it picks up the vowel sound before it so it's kind of voiced ruclips.net/video/0OagrZJTTJA/видео.html
Hi William, thank you for watching my video and for your comment. Yes, the /d/ is the voiced version of /t/ - both are consonant sounds, as well as the flap T (they are not vowel sounds). The alveolar flap T only occurs between when the /t/ or /d/ is in between two vowel sounds and it's kind of a very short and soft tap. So there is less force and it is also shorter compared to a full /t/. I hope this helps!
But the sound is not a plosive. It's correctly identified as a tap (or flap). That other simple you mention is basically the voiced alveolar _plosive_ /d/, just re-written as a voiced allophone of /t/. But the American sound is not a voiced plosive-that sounds very unnatural.
Actually I pronounce "Water" as [wɑːt̬ɚ] or [wɑːʔɚ]. But I never pronounce it as [wɑːɾɚ]. Because "ɾ" (Flapped T or Flapped R, whatever it is) is seriously "R" sound. You said [ɾ] looks like a "R" but it has nothing to do with the "R". Answer: No ma'am. [ɾ] has anything to do with the "R" For example: Japanese ら り る れ ろ (Ra Ri Ru Re Ro) are pronounced as [ɾa], [ɾi], [ɾɯ], [ɾe], [ɾo] , and they are pronounced as like as approximately "R" sound (Not approximately "D" sound). In my language Bengali, "র" is pronounced as [r], [ɹ] and [ɾ]. In Arabic, "ر" is pronounced as [r] and [ɾ]. These are not pronounced as approximate "D" sound. These are approximate "R" sound. It has anything to do with "R" (not approx "D" sound) You said "Water" as "WaDar" (I heard it as a D sound). Yes, you are right that it is completely not D. It is approximate D sound. But that was mentioned as [t̬ ] (not [ɾ])
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I'm not a native English speaker, but I picked up this sound while watching American RUclips as a kid. Been wondering what it is for a while, and here it is! Thanks!!
It was a sound that I was producing without paying attention. When I realized that it was something different, I started to search for it but I couldn't find what it is till now. Thanks for the video, it was really helpful!
How deep this Billie teacher goes into the subject of Phonetics!
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Thank you so much. we need more teachers like you. all is left is to teach us about the word (IMPORTANT) it's a little bit difficult to pronounce
Suggestion: when you give the phonological rule describing the "change," use square brackets for the sound: /t/ => [r]. The flap is a realization of the /t/ phoneme in those varieties of English, not its own phoneme. Do the same for the phonetic transcriptions in the table of examples.
I am waiting for this video
It was very defficult for me but you make it so easy realy thank you
Now I am practising and it sounds like a /r/ 🧐 I Will continue listening to the vídeo.
Awesome, thanks!
My pleasure :-)
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in Spanish it is an R (soft ere) and it is the counterpart of the strong-vibrant one is what differentiates Caro (expensive) to Carro (Car)
Pero (but) to Perro (dog)
Do u have a glottal stops video?
Not yet, but I'll consider it for a future video!
Can we flap the /r/ sound?
Hello Ezequiel! Thank you for your question. Yes, we can flap the /r/ but it only occurs in some variants of English, e.g. in Scouse (Liverpool English) and conservative Northern England English, most Scottish English, some South African, Welsh, Indian and Irish English and early 20th century Received Pronunciation. But this is different to flapping of /t/ and /d/!
¿Alguien sabe de dónde es el acento de la profesora?
Suena como un acento de Inglaterra pero está en Barcelona entonces quizás es española?
si d but it is softer
Well when you make a t sound you're building up pressure right? And the d sound is nearly the same thing but vocalized right? So are you kind of already making this vibration and just taping your tounge? Cause in English it is always between two vowels like better or water or in spanish pero is this right? It is easy to say those correctly but it's hard to just say the sound this guy says it's more like a t but it picks up the vowel sound before it so it's kind of voiced ruclips.net/video/0OagrZJTTJA/видео.html
Hi William, thank you for watching my video and for your comment. Yes, the /d/ is the voiced version of /t/ - both are consonant sounds, as well as the flap T (they are not vowel sounds). The alveolar flap T only occurs between when the /t/ or /d/ is in between two vowel sounds and it's kind of a very short and soft tap. So there is less force and it is also shorter compared to a full /t/. I hope this helps!
This is how people from Baltimore pronounce the T
I think this Voiced alveolar flap symbol is looked like upside down of letter J
It does!!
Thanks cute
Ma'am, your pronunciation is right, but it is not mentioned as [ɾ]. It is mentioned as [t̬]
But the sound is not a plosive. It's correctly identified as a tap (or flap). That other simple you mention is basically the voiced alveolar _plosive_ /d/, just re-written as a voiced allophone of /t/. But the American sound is not a voiced plosive-that sounds very unnatural.
Actually I pronounce "Water" as [wɑːt̬ɚ] or [wɑːʔɚ]. But I never pronounce it as [wɑːɾɚ].
Because "ɾ" (Flapped T or Flapped R, whatever it is) is seriously "R" sound.
You said [ɾ] looks like a "R" but it has nothing to do with the "R".
Answer: No ma'am. [ɾ] has anything to do with the "R"
For example: Japanese ら り る れ ろ (Ra Ri Ru Re Ro) are pronounced as [ɾa], [ɾi], [ɾɯ], [ɾe], [ɾo] , and they are pronounced as like as approximately "R" sound (Not approximately "D" sound).
In my language Bengali, "র" is pronounced as [r], [ɹ] and [ɾ].
In Arabic, "ر" is pronounced as [r] and [ɾ].
These are not pronounced as approximate "D" sound. These are approximate "R" sound.
It has anything to do with "R" (not approx "D" sound)
You said "Water" as "WaDar" (I heard it as a D sound).
Yes, you are right that it is completely not D. It is approximate D sound. But that was mentioned as [t̬ ] (not [ɾ])
why does "little" have the alveolar flap if the "t" is not between two vowels?🥲
But it is ... /ˈlɪt̬.əl/, even if you leave out the schwa sound, the /l/ turns into a syllabic consonant which acts a bit as a vowel.