What does “nt” (pronounced “n”) mean in English? (as in ‘nnet’) on wikipedia?
I know that there is a name for pronouncing “nt” as “n” in some words, as is common in American English?
“Internet”
- is pronounced as “inner net”.
- “Interesting” means “inner resting”.
What is scientific name for this?
What really makes a person happy?
The Wikipedia article on intervocalic alveolar flapping addresses this directly:
The cluster can be flapped/tapped; the IPA symbol for a nasal tap is . In quick speech, words like winner and winter can become homophonous. “flip-tapping” does not occur for most speakers in words like carpenter and ninety, which instead surface with “d”.
What is an interactive alveolar flip of clusters?
If your hearing is , where /nt/ becomes , then that one is called assimilation, and it is by no means confined to the United States alone. What is a case of progressive assimilation (left to right), in which a later sound becomes more like an earlier one.
Is.t properly expressed as at the end of the syllable coda?
In fact, it is not uncommon to hear “international” pronounced as . This /n/ nasalizes a preceding vowel in regressive assimilation (right-to-left), but is deleted itself.
In a case of reciprocal assimilation, bleed-over goes both ways.
