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The voiceless alveolar plosive is a type of Consonant al sound used in many Spoken Language s. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents voiceless Dental , Alveolar , and Postalveolar Plosives is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is t. The sound is a very common sound cross-linguistically. Most languages have at least a plain [t , and some distinguish more than variety. Many India n languages, such as Hindi , have a two-way contrast between Aspirated and plain The only languages known without a [t are Hawai‘ian (outside of Ni‘ihau ), and colloquial Samoan , which also lacks an [n]. FEATURES Features of the voiceless alveolar plosive:
VARIETIES OF {LINK WITHOUT TITLE} IN ENGLISH English has both aspirated and plain {Link without Title} , but they are Allophone s of a single phoneme /t/. When /t/ occurs at the beginning of a word or a Stressed Syllable , like in ''try'', ''senatorial'', or ''today'', then it is always aspirated. When it occurs at the beginning of an unstressed syllable that isn't at the beginning of a word, like in ''volatile'', ''palatable'', or ''theater'', then it becomes an Alveolar Tap in most North American dialects, becomes Glottalised in some southern British dialects, and it is unaspirated or slightly aspirated in other dialects. When /t/ occurs in a Consonant Cluster following like in ''stop'', ''strain'', or ''register'', then it is always unaspirated. When it occurs at the end of a word, like in ''pit'', ''waist'', or ''apt'', then it is usually unaspirated, and if the word is at the end of an Utterance , then it is often unreleased. In the sequence /tɹ/ at the start of a syllable, such as in the word ''entrance'', the /t/ is aspirated and the /ɹ/ devoiced, making an affricate-like sound something like [tʃ . The Glottal Stop may also be an allophone of /t/, and the North American alveolar flap is also an allophone of D . See the articles on those consonants for more. IN GEORGIAN Georgian has aspirated and ejective {Link without Title} . They are distinct phonemes, not allophones. Aspirated t is spelled with თ. Ejective t is spelled with ტ. IN GERMAN In German , as in English, aspirated and plain {Link without Title} are allophones. IN PORTUGUESE In Brazilian Portuguese , the letter ''t'' before the sound SEE ALSO |
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