Tapped D symbol

[yass67@poppy.ocn.jp]

Dear Prof(?)Mark A. Mandel,

Thank you for your comment. Yes, it is.

Y Shoji
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From: "Mark A Mandel" <mam at THEWORLD.COM>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 1:54 AM
Subject: Re: Tapped D symbol


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> On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, yass67 at poppy.ocn.jp wrote:
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> #Dear Linguists,
> #
> #In Longman Pronunciation Dictionary, the Tapping of T in American English
is
> #indicated by /t / plus a small V. But it doesn't indicated the Tapping of
D
> #in words like 'wading, ladder, rider, Adam, pudding' and so on.
>
>         [...]
>
> #My suggestion is to add the diacritical symbol for the rhoticity of
vowels
> #(the little 'twig' like symbol added to a schwa for "bird, nurse, stir")
to
> #/ t, d /. Because /t / plus 'voiced' is basically /d /. Then, learners
have
> #to know that /d / can be tapped. So there are two steps to get to the
Tapped
> #/ t, d /. But adding a 'rhoticity' can indicate that they sound more like
an
> #R and voiced.
>
> The IPA symbol for this phone is a small capital J rotated 180 degrees.
> It looks sort of like this (view the following in a monospace font such
> as Courier or Monaco):
>
>           -
>          | `
>          |
>          |
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> -- Mark A. Mandel
>    Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania
>