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    Flap T: Really A D Sound?: Youtube Blocked? Video Text

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    The document discusses whether the "flap T" sound is accurately represented by the IPA symbol for "D". While a typical "D" involves a stop of airflow, the flap T between vowels or after R does not have a stop. It is produced similarly to some types of "D" sounds between vowels. Using the "D" symbol is meant to indicate it is like this variant of "D", not the stopped version. The flap T may also sound similar to the letter "R" in some languages but is distinct from the "R" sound in American English.

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    The document discusses whether the "flap T" sound is accurately represented by the IPA symbol for "D". While a typical "D" involves a stop of airflow, the flap T between vowels or after R does not have a stop. It is produced similarly to some types of "D" sounds between vowels. Using the "D" symbol is meant to indicate it is like this variant of "D", not the stopped version. The flap T may also sound similar to the letter "R" in some languages but is distinct from the "R" sound in American English.

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    The document discusses whether the "flap T" sound is accurately represented by the IPA symbol for "D". While a typical "D" involves a stop of airflow, the flap T between vowels or after R does not have a stop. It is produced similarly to some types of "D" sounds between vowels. Using the "D" symbol is meant to indicate it is like this variant of "D", not the stopped version. The flap T may also sound similar to the letter "R" in some languages but is distinct from the "R" sound in American English.

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    The document discusses whether the "flap T" sound is accurately represented by the IPA symbol for "D". While a typical "D" involves a stop of airflow, the flap T between vowels or after R does not have a stop. It is produced similarly to some types of "D" sounds between vowels. Using the "D" symbol is meant to indicate it is like this variant of "D", not the stopped version. The flap T may also sound similar to the letter "R" in some languages but is distinct from the "R" sound in American English.

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    Flap T: Really a D Sound?

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    I use the symbol for the D [d] in my videos for the Flap T. Is that really accurate?
    YouTube blocked? Click here to see the video.
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    In this American English pronunciation video, were going to take a look at the
    question: is the Flap T really a D sound?Its not unusual for people to ask my why I
    say the flap T is a D sound. They will say its not the same as a D sound in, for
    example, day. My answer to them: youre right. But, the Flap T, or T between
    vowels, is the same as the D between vowels. So basically what Im saying, is that
    a D between vowels is not the same sound as the D in other cases, though they
    both use the same IPA symbol. Lets take a look at an example word: dad.
    For that beginning D, there is a stop: dd, dd. D is a stop consonant, so I let air
    build up a little bit in my throat dd, dd, dd and then release it. Its the same
    with a D at the end of the word, though a little more subtle. Dd, dd, Dad-d-d-d, but
    you can still hear, dad-d-d, there is a stop. Well, lets take a slightly different word,
    Daddy. Now we have a D sound between two vowels. Daddy, Daddy. Im going to
    stretch out the vowel sound before and after to make that D more noticeable.
    Daaaaaadyyyy. Did you hear a stop? There wasnt one. Daaaaaadyyyy.
    Between vowels, or after an R and before a vowel, its a different sound, because
    there isnt a stop. If I pronounced both Ds with a stop it would sound like this: daddy. But it doesnt. It sounds like daddy, uhh, no stop in the airflow. This is true of
    the Flap T as well.
    As I said before, if you look up the word daddy in a dictionary, both of the D
    sounds, though different, will have the same symbol.

    This is why I have chosen to say the that Flap T is just like the D sound it is like
    one kind of D sound, the D between vowels. So, matter = madder. Pronounced
    the same way. When we pronounce a T or D this way, it smooths out speech. It
    takes out a stop, which is why youll hear so many Americans flap their Ts. We
    love to smooth out the line.
    So, this was a long explanation about why I use the [d] symbol for a Flap T. The
    most important thing to take from this video, though, is that both T and D between
    vowels, or after an R and before a vowel, dont have a stop component. They do
    not interrupt the flow of the line, they smooth out the speech.
    One last comment. Sometimes, regarding the Flap T, Ill get a comment from a
    student: that sounds like an R sound to me. It is an R sound? Well, depending on
    your native language, yes, it is. The al-VEE-uh-ler flap is in many languages,
    usually represented by the letter R. For example, Arabic, Japanese, Korean,
    Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish, to name a few. So you may ask, why dont I use that
    IPA symbol? Two reasons: you wont see that symbol in dictionary of American
    English. And, Im not fluent enough in any of those languages, to say: yes,
    definitely, I know it is absolutely the exact same movement of the tongue, touching
    exactly the same spot at the roof of the mouth. So whether it is exactly the same
    sound or just very close, it may be very useful for you to think of the Flap T or D
    between vowels as the R sound from your native language. But, just keep in mind
    that it is not at all related to the R sound in American English. RRRR, where you
    can hold out that sound, and the front part of the tongue must not touch the roof of
    the mouth.
    Thats it, and thanks so much for using Rachels English.

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