Flapping

[Aaron E. Drews]

In going through my data, I have found something strange happening across
the word boundary in "but hoped"  (The read sentence is "John had read the
book, but hoped the movie version would be better").

Can the /t/ in <but> be flapped before <hoped> for any of you?  To me, it
sounds natural flapped, but I could just be staring at my data for too
long (not unusual).  If it can't be flapped, how would _you_ realise it.

All of the literature has flapping before vowels, but /h/ is special;
my pronouncing dictionary only has words in isolation; my native
intuitions are a bit off since I speak mid-Atlantic.

Thanks for any answers!
--Aaron

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Aaron E. Drews                               The University of Edinburgh
aaron at ling.ed.ac.uk                  Departments of English Language and
http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~aaron       Theoretical & Applied  Linguistics

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