Query Details
| Query Subject: |
Phonology: American English Flap
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| Author: | Jorge Guitart | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
| Linguistic LingField(s): |
Phonetics
Phonology Lexicography |
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| Subject Language(s): |
English
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| Query: |
Can anybody tell me why the classic A Pronouncing Dictionary of American
English by Kenyon and Knott--I have the 4th edition (1953)--does not recognize the existence of the American English Flap? (AEF). The AEF is not listed among the sounds of American English and all words with intervocalic /t/ and /d/ (e.g., petal, pedal, writer, rider, etc.) are transcribed as being pronounced with [t] and [d] respectively. Incidentally, the standard dictionary I use, The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (Houghton Mifflin 1992) does not recognize the existence of the AEF either. Is there a contemporary pronouncing dictionary of AE that recognizes that /t/ and /d/ are flapped where they are? Jorge Guitart SUNY Buffalo |
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| LL Issue: | 11.94 | |
| Date posted: | 18-Jan-2000 | |
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