There are no speakers of any particular variety of a language who disregard phonetic rules, although individual speakers of any language may have medical conditions such as hearing loss or a speech impediment which may prevent them from speaking conventionally.

Different varieties of a language may have different phonetic and phonological rules but they all have rules, they are all exceptionally complex and sophisticated and difficult to analyse.

It is a feature of almost all varieties of English. Is their mainly general American and Southern English; they share the same origins?

Negative contractions such as can’t, won’t, musn’t and so forth are most likely to be pronounced with a glottal stop at the end of the word, //. A word isn’t, for example, will usually be pronounced . The second most likely realization for negative contractions will be with a complete elision of t/. So, for example, we would expect to see /kn/, for the word can’t in Gen Am. The least likely realisation in bad contractions in English is with a canonical /t/ in the form of an alveolar plosive. In other words, the least likely thing we should expect is .

In varieties of English which use the word ain’t as a negative contraction we should expect the following realisations to be the most frequent: en en

Once in a group of speakers this is the most frequent realisation where t is a phonological difference from a non n en en Only someone who expects a group of speakers to behave abnormally should expect

• this
• as

the most frequent realisation of ain’t :

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