203: When /t/ sounds like /d/ during linking: alveolar stop
American English Pronunciation Podcast
Seattle Learning Academy
4.6 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2014
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Happy New Year and welcome back to Seattle Learning Academy's American English pronunciation podcast. |
| 0:11.1 | My name is Mandy, and this is our 203rd episode. |
| 0:16.6 | Listen to the end of this show to hear about our special January 2015 offer of 15% off of all of our Seattle Learning Academy books, e-books, and even classes. |
| 0:32.7 | Also, there have been changes to our Facebook page that I don't want you to miss. |
| 0:38.7 | So please listen through to the end of this show. Also, in the New Year's spirit, I want to share one of my |
| 0:45.5 | personal New Year's resolutions with you. I know I was not as regular with releasing podcasts in |
| 0:52.6 | 2014 as I was in past years. So my resolution is to get back |
| 0:59.0 | on a regular every other week podcast schedule for all of 2015. You, my audience, will have to help me |
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| 1:30.0 | Let's get on to today's topic. |
| 1:33.6 | Many of our students at Seattle Learning Academy |
| 1:36.6 | are already aware of the quick D sound |
| 1:39.8 | Americans often use in place of the T sound |
| 1:43.0 | in words like little and water and |
| 1:49.0 | Meeting however many of those same people don't realize that the same changing of sounds can occur when linking from one word into another in English. An example of this is linking |
| 2:05.8 | the word out into the word of. Listen closely as I say these words together. Out of. Out of. |
| 2:18.3 | If I had said those words with a regular T sound, it would have sounded like out of. |
| 2:27.3 | Out of. |
| 2:29.3 | Listen to the difference. |
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