/t/ for /d/ for word endings
Benjamin Barrett
gogaku at IX.NETCOM.COM
Wed Aug 15 17:11:02 UTC 2007
No. There's the -ed sound as well. I'll leave it to you as a phonetic
exercise to figure out the environment. BB
Tom Zurinskas wrote:
> Someone said the below. Is this standard American pronunciation?
>
> /t/ is voiceless and /d/ is voiced. In standard American pronunciation,
> verbs
> that end with a voiceless sound (/f/k/p/s/sh/ch/) add /t/ for their -ed
> ending.
> Verbs that end with a voiced sound add /d/ for their -ed ending.
>
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