Political flapping and voicing of coronal stops
Language Log 2022-05-29
Summary:
Trader Joe? pic.twitter.com/ICvLmuAoHT — mass ave curmudgeon (@mass_ave) May 26, 2022 In most varieties of American English, coronal stops (/t/, /d/, /n/) that are not in the onset of stressed syllables are generally realized as ballistic "taps". And in these contexts, lexical (or historical) /t/ also loses its voicelessness. So for most of us, traitor […]