Aspiration of plosives in term boundaries in Final position and word boundaries in ASCII and JP.
“It’s a cat”, is
it?
I’m not sure what kind of aspiration the various /t/ should have. What does it mean when putting an “I”, the first one in “it” is weakly aspirated, as it’s followed by a stressed vowel but is in a word boundary and the one in “cat” would likewise be weak – supposing I’m right, would the last one have no aspiration, non-audible release or weak aspiration?
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It is a cat, is it?
I don’t know what “should” be. It’s just my best shot at describing my own pronunciation. (I’m a kind of Midwesterner.) The diacritic on the last t is meant to represent closing of the glottis. The preceding /t/s have both been flapped because they are at the ends of syllables and are between vowels. Any stress on the following vowel does not matter if they flap. They are at the end of this syllable because they are at the ends of words. While the lengthened vowel of “cat” reflects the following comma in the spelling.
All the answer myself. Sorry for the question.
In British English Received Pronunciation, voiceless plosives /t/d/k/ are: Fully aspirated when followed by a
- vowel in a stressed syllable; Weakly aspirated when in unstressed syllable
- or word boundary (as every /t/ in the example sentence, except
forthe last one); and not aspirated when preceded by an - /s/ or in final position (as,
obviously,the last
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