American Accent Training 笔记 06

Chapter 3 cat? Caught? Cut?

Chapter 4 the American T

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

At the top of a staircase T is pronounced T as in Ted or Italian; a T in the middle od a staircase is pronounced as D ;whereas a T at the bottom of a staircase isn’t pronounces at all .

Think of the music od a cello again when you say

1 T is T at the beginning of a word or in a stressed syllable

2 T is D in the middle of a word

3 T is HELD at the end of a word

4 T is HELD before N in -tain and -ten endings

5 T is silent after N with lax vowel

Rule 1 -Top of the staircase

Rule 2 -Middle of the staircase

Rule 3-Bottom of the staircase

Rule 4-Held T before N

Rule 5- The silent T