Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Accent Training: American T Part 1


The American T is influenced very strongly by intonation and its position in a word or phrase.


If the T is at the beginning of the word, it is strong and aspirated.

Examples: two, table, ten, time, tease

Sentence: Teddy took ten tickets.


If the T is at the end of the word, do NOT aspirate it - that makes the T not heard at all.

Examples: put, lot, hot, sit, cut

Sentence: It was cut short, right?


But in the Past Tense of words ending in unvoiced consonant sounds - f, k, p, s, ch, sh - T is strong and aspirated.

Examples: tricked, dropped, watched, washed, stuffed

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