Items for "American English"

Flaps and other variants of /t/ in American English: Allophonic distribution without constraints, rules, or abstractions

The distribution of the flap allophone [?] of American English, along with the other allophones of /t/,[t^h,t⁼, ?, t] has been accounted for in various formal frameworks by assuming a number of different abstract mechanisms and entities...

Keywords: analogy, flapping, tapping, American English, phoneme /t/, Analogical Modeling of Language, allophonic distribution