Consonant Sound / d / as in "dog" - American English Pronunciation

The /d/ sound is familiar to many non-native English speakers and its pronunciation may seem fairly easy. However, the American /d/ is not that simple. Depending on its position in a word, it may be aspirated or unaspirated.
In this video, you'll learn pronunciation rules for the /d/ consonant.
You'll practice making this sound with several pronunciation exercises recorded by a professional speech therapist.
Just so you know, we have a website: soundsamerican.net/
Quick Links:
• Review of the /d/ consonant: 0:36
• How to make the /d/ sound: 01:43
• Pronunciation exercise 1: 02:35
• Pronunciation exercise 2: 04:44
• Pronunciation exercise 3: 06:32
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TRANSCRIPT
Hello there! This is the "Sounds American" channel.
In this video, we're going to talk about the American consonant sound /d/, as in the word "dog." You can also hear this sound in words like "doll," "bird," "dad" or "buddy."
We’ll be using a special phonetic symbol - /d/ - for this sound.
The /d/ is one of the six consonants that belong to the stop sounds category.
Let's start with reviewing what we learned in the Stops Sounds Overview video.
The /d/ is made by stopping the air with the tip of your tongue at the alveolar ridge.
The /d/ is a voiced sound. It has a voiceless counterpart, the consonant sound /t/.
As with all stop sounds, aspiration is important for the pronunciation of the /d/ consonant.
The /d/ is made with a slight puff of air at the beginning of words and stressed syllables.
At the end of words, the /d/ follows the final stop rule and is not aspirated.
Check out a few examples:
• "day," "address," "do"
• "bed," "grade, " "road."
Now that we've covered the basics, let's find out how to make this sound.
Slightly open your mouth and leave your lips in a neutral position.
Now, you have to stop the air in your mouth.
This is how you do that:
Place the tip of your tongue on the alveolar ridge behind your upper front teeth.
Now, stop the air with the tip of your tongue and then release it with a small puff.
Remember, the /d/ is a voiced sound, so you need to add your voice.
Let’s try making it: /d/, /d/, /d/.
Now, let’s do some pronunciation exercises; we'll start with the /d/ at the beginning of words.
Remember that the /d/ should be voiced and slightly aspirated.
Try to practice as many words as possible, this is the most important part of the whole lesson.
Let’s begin!
• daily
• damage
• dance
• dark
• daughter
• deal
• delight
• design
• desk
• dessert
• dew
• dial
• dirt
• discover
• dismiss
• doctor
• dollar
• drugstore
• during
• dust
Let’s pause here for a second and review the final stop rule. When the stop sounds are found at the end of words, they are pronounced without a puff of air.
As you may have already guessed, that's what we'll practice with the words in the next group.
• add
• afraid
• avoid
• card
• child
• cold
• coward
• crowd
• field
• food
• glad
• gold
• hard
• hood
• kind
• loud
• wild
• wood
• world
• yard
Awesome! Now let's practice pronouncing words with more than one /d/ sound.
Your challenge is to determine if you should or should not aspirate the /d/.
Hint: listen carefully to how the words are pronounced.
• dad
• daddy
• decide
• decided
• deduct
• deed
• demand
• dependable
• cardboard
• childhood
• extended
• hundred
• independence
• roadside
• standard

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The /T/ and /d/ is aspirated at the beginning of words and stressed syllables, such as task desk attack address. The /t/ and /d/ is unaspirated at the end of words and unstressed syllables, such as bet bed after daddy. (Allophone) Is it right or wrong?

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Hello, so can i conclude this video like this 1. if after the /d/ is a vowel then /d/ will be aspirated 2. if after the /d/ is a consonant or nothing, the /d/ wont be aspirated Is that true? I wonder because if the /d/ at the end of some words are not aspirated, then how could we make linking sound between two words such as "demand on" which I often hear " di maen don". Thank you so much

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Why is the second d aspirated in the word "decided"(7:04)? It doesn`t start the word or a stressed syllable.

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On gg translation still pronounce /d/ at the end ??

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[@sonhoangduc8184]

Hello Sounds American. I really really need your help on this matter. when a word ending in /nd/ links into a word that begins with a consonant sound. I can't hear the /d/ sound at all. Feel like just the /n/ links smoothly to the beginning consonant sound of the following word such as: Please stand back, a big weekend party . is the /d/ deleted, (I've been asking a lot of questions since i found your channel on youtube and I always get the right answers. That helps me a lot). Thanks and 1 billion likes!

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+Son Hoangduc There are two ways that the /d/ could be pronounced in this position in words. It's usually made with a slight puff of air, especially in single words. But it also can be unaspirated, especially in conversation, as it falls at the end of the word. This is an example of the final stop rule. (kzbin.info/www/bejne/r3ezk3-Ziqill7M) It sounds like an /n/ instead of a /d/ in the word "stand" because the /n/ is made in the exact same place as the /d/ - you place your tongue on the alveolar ridge behind your upper teeth for both sounds, so it's an easy sound to reduce in this position. So in conversation, it's okay to just make an /n/ and pronounced an unaspirated /d/ at the end of those words. If you say the word by itself you'll want to make a slight puff of air to pronounce the /d/. Hope this helps!

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AMAZING VIDEOS.I learn a lot from these. But i have some questions. 1.When do /g/ and /b/ become unvoiced? 2.Except /b/,/d/and/g/, do other voiced consonants always need to be voiced in the word or in the sentence? ps:There are almost no voiced consonants in my mother language, so I am confused about the voiced consonants. Although I may know how to pronounce the voiced consonants, it feels unnatural to speak if every voiced consonant needs to be voiced in the sentences(In my mother language, b,d and g are not be voiced，but sounds like the prounciation when /p/，/t/，/k/ follow /s/). So is it because of my lack of practice and inaccurate pronunciation?

[@SoundsAmerican]

Hello there! Thank you for your feedback, glad to hear you like our videos and that they're helpful! You asked excellent questions. Here's a short answer: voiced consonant sounds are always voiced, they don't change to unvoiced ones, but most have unvoiced counterparts. However, some consonant letters can represent both voiced and unvoiced sounds. And here's a long answer. First of all, let's make sure we're talking about the same things: in our videos and other content, when we write /b/, /d/, or /g/, we're talking about sounds, as opposed to letters. The sounds are written in between the slashes in our videos and other content: /d/. The letters are in quotes: 'D'. We do this to make it a little easier for our audience to distinguish between them. In English, almost all letters can represent several different sounds, and this includes consonant letters. For example, the letter 'D' in the word "do" represents the /d/ sound. However, the same letter 'D' represents the /t/ sound in the word "worked." (For more detail, check out our post on this: kzbin.infoUgwynkU7SEaGQXVItRl4AaABCQ.) Now, about the voiced and unvoiced/voiceless sounds. The sounds /b/and /g/ are always voiced. They are never unvoiced. The letters 'B' and 'G' never represent unvoiced sounds; they always represent voiced sounds /b/ and /g/, respectively. About other voiced consonants: if we're talking about sounds - voiced sounds are always voiced. They don't become unvoiced. Most voiced sounds in English have voiceless counterparts, for example, /b/ - /p/, /d/ - /t/, /θ/ - /ð/, etc. So if you see a voiced sound in a word, you need to voice it. One important note - in English, you may not always know what sounds are represented by letters, so make sure to check transcription for unfamiliar words in a good dictionary. Regarding the unnatural feeling - yes, most likely it's because you just need more practice. BTW, what's your native language? Sorry for the long answer, and hope it helps!

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@@SoundsAmerican Thanks for your answer! I am a Chinese, I think my native language is cantonese although Mandarin is the official language in china（my mandarin pronunciation is not right enough).

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@@SoundsAmerican Excuse me,one more question. People say that English is the language spoken in the back of the mouth.So are they talking about the same thing ''spoken in the back of the mouth'' and the ''pronunciation position''（i do not know how to describe it in English)? FOR example，/i/ is a front vowel， the prounciation position is at the front of mouth.So are this front prounciation position and ''the spoken in the back of the mouth'' conceptually the same kind of thing？Or just be of two different concept? ps:sorry, my Engish is poor. so i can't describe it accurately in English.Hope you get it.

[@SoundsAmerican]

Not sure what is meant by "English is spoken in the back of the mouth" exactly. It doesn't seem right to generalize the American English dialect this way. There are 48 (or 49 depending on how you count them ) sounds and they are pronounced in different ways. There are four back vowel sounds in American English: /u/, /ʊ/, /oʊ/, and /ɔ/. Some people don't have /ɔ/ in their dialect, so for them, it's the /ɑ/ sound. These sounds are pronounced with the tongue pulled far back in the mouth. Several consonant sounds are pronounced with the back of the tongue pressed against the soft palate: /k/, /g/, and /ŋ/. There are no other sounds that are pronounced in the back of the mouth... Hope it helps!

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@@SoundsAmerican Thank you for your answering.

[@macrorus1231]

What sound do we pronounce in 'Mind you' ? d͡ʒ?

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+macro Rus , Hello there! Again, excellent question! And, as it often happens, there's no a simple answer 😊. First, we're having a hard time coming up with a sentence with "mind you." We can think of one with "remind you" but not "mind you." But it doesn't matter, as this process of pronouncing the /d/ as /dʒ/ happens in general when a verb form links with "you," for example, "did you" or "should you." -). Secondly, it depends on how quickly this phrase is pronounced and if the stress within the sentence is shifted to either of those words. If it's said more slowly and/or if either or both of those two words are the least bit emphasized then it is less palatalized (pronounced as /dʒ/ ) or not at all. If it's in connected, fast conversational speech then we would palatalize them (pronounce as /dʒ/). Hope it helps!

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I really have would liked if you used axillaries for this exercise: Do, does, did, done, and their real pronunciation.

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Que aplicación es ?

[@m5350arianagrande]

Stop D apply in past regular verbs

[@liemnguyen4679]

So could you tell me how to diferentiate t and d and the end of the word.

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They're differentiated by the length of a vowel before them: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r3ezk3-Ziqill7M

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March 21, 2020

[@colen4349]

Hello Mister! I wonder if we can stop the d sound when it comes with n like find? And as well as /lt/ like felt, /mp/ like jump? I know we have six stop sounds /bp dt gk/ but I don't know wheather or not they can be stopped if a consonant comes before them.

[@SoundsAmerican]

Hello there! Great question! When you have a stop sound in a word, you always stop the air. However, you need to watch out for the aspiration (a puff of air) that you release after stopping the air. The general rule that we tell our students is that when you have two consonants following each other, make a puff of air on the second. With the /nd/ cluster, we make a small puff on the /d/. It helps to differentiate between words like "fine" and "find." If you don't release the /d/ at all, then the word "find" can be confused with "fine." Same goes for the /lt/ and /mp/ clusters, though sometimes in conversations the final /t/ is not released as it merges with the following consonants. Hope this helps!

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@@SoundsAmerican thank you so much!

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np! Let us know if you have any other questions. 🤗

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Hi, was that a presentation or a phonetics software?

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In this video, we're using our own app, but we haven't released it to the public yet. We're planning to do it very soon and we'll announce the release on this channel. Stay tuned!

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We're using our own app, but we haven't released it to the public yet. We're planning to do it very soon and we'll announce the release on this channel. Stay tuned!

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What is the differences between /d/ and flap /t/?

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The flap 'T' is "quicker," it's like a very quick tap.

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Are cart and card are pronounced the same? 🤔

[@SoundsAmerican]

Nope, these words differ by their final sounds. The word "cart" ends with a voiceless /t/ sound (check out our video, it may be helpful: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o33PoKeMlJWXiA ), but the word "card" ends with the voiced /d/ sound. They are made almost the same way. The only difference is that you need to add your voice when pronouncing the /d/ sound. Hope this helps!

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I need sound of H please!

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+ROBERTO ROMAN , yes, we plan to make a video for that sound too. Thank you for your suggestion!

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Sounds American I need that sound for this weekend . saludos desde Colombia

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+ROBERTO ROMAN , we don't have this video and won't able to make it overnight, but here's a video on this topic from Rachel's English: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q4CqXmeQn7dqn8U Hope it helps!

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"Kind" is killing me! I cannot say it without the final d being aspirated. Otherwise it sounds like "kine." Uggghh. #TheStruggle

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Ashley Winfrey d is the toughest when it’s at the end of the word.

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This is called: Voiced alveolar plosive A pulmonic consanant

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Can you use the blade of your tongue? Can you make these sounds D T N with your tongue tip down and the blade or middle part of your tongue touching the ridge? Where exactly is the ridge located tho?

[@SoundsAmerican]

You can, but this will be what we call "mispronunciation" 😉

[@johnconor5485]

@@SoundsAmerican what do you mean by that? you can make sounds but you will mispronounce them so that it won't sound natural? where exactly is the tongue tip tho?

[@johnconor5485]

@@SoundsAmerican and where exactly is the ridge?

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están muy buenos los vídeos pero si explicaras el punto de vista de los vídeos en español estaría mucho que mejor

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+Francisco Baquedano Esperamos que los subtítulos en español sean útiles.😀

[@akirafu5507]

I wonder why we have aspirated and unaspirated /d/ here, the chart I used just distinguish /t/ /p/ /k/ (voicedless consonents) as aspirated and unaspirated

[@SoundsAmerican]

+Akira Fu , Both voiced, and voiceless stop consonants are aspirated at the beginning of words and syllables.The aspiration is stronger for the voiceless sounds, so it's just more noticeable. If you want to check it, just pronounce the word "dog," reverse it and say it again. 😊 See the difference?Some non-native speakers involuntarily devoice the voiced stops at the end of words and turn the /b/, the /d/, and the /g/ sounds into the /p/, /t/, and the /k/. So, teachers focus more on pointing out the importance of voicing them correctly. Aspiration is the lesser evil of those two mistakes 😊.BTW, the final stop rule which means that the stops at the end of words and syllables are not aspirated applies to voiced stops as well.

[@akirafu5507]

Thank you so much for responding to my message~ Your answer is fair clear!!! （ノ≧∀≦）ノ

[@akirafu5507]

"The aspiration is stronger for the voiceless sounds, so it's just more noticeable. If you want to check it, just pronounce the word "dog," reverse it and say it again." Here I am not quite sure what you mean because /d/ and /g/ are both voiced sound.

[@SoundsAmerican]

+Akira Fu, somehow a bug in the KZbin comments cut a sentence ((. What we meant was, it's easier to notice aspiration of the voiceless stops, however, the voiced stop consonants are aspirated too. And the aspiration of the initial voiced stops is stronger. There's a trick that helps notice the aspiration of the voiced stops: pronounce "dog," reverse this word and pronounce again.

[@akirafu5507]

Now it is understandable~ thanks you OwO

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Hello! Do ‘had a” and “had” sound the same? To me, “had a boy ” is the same with “had boy”. 😂😂😂 Looking forward to your reply. Thank you!

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1:49

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No video on youtube anymore ?

[@SoundsAmerican]

There will be, stay tuned! In the meanwhile, we publish a lot of useful pronunciation info on our website: soundsamerican.net/

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What is app?

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We're using our own app, but we haven't released it to the public yet. We're planning to do it very soon and we'll announce the release on this channel. Stay tuned!

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What's the app that you used?

[@SoundsAmerican]

We're using our own app, but we haven't released it to the public yet. We're planning to do it very soon and we'll announce the release on this channel. Stay tuned!

[@michaelgironm.5963]

@@SoundsAmerican I'm looking forward to get their app, you're the best❤

[@nadineahmed2672]

I have a request! . Could you please discuss more what you meant by '' the letter at the end of the word is not aspirated '' . Did you mean not pronounced ( I don't think so! ) , Sometimes I don't hear you saying the letter at the end of the word though .. thank you!

[@SoundsAmerican]

This video should help: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r3ezk3-Ziqill7M

[@nadineahmed2672]

@@SoundsAmerican thank you for replying ..I checked out the video , it is a great video and helped me understand better...

[@nadineahmed2672]

here I am, coming back to the same video to practice this sound again .

[@proudg9026]

@@nadineahmed2672 There's no air pushed out. But the letter is clearly noticeable due to the sudden stop of air as you put the tip of your tongue against the alveolar ridge not releasing the slightest amount of air, also the tongue hits the alveolar rigde relatively hardly so that you can hear the impact sound, it's what you hear like when you slightly slap your face. Do it as you would do you when the letter is at the beginning, but don't release any air when it's at the end. I hope this helps. If you're coming from an Arabic background it can be slightly tricky as many Arabic speaking people think that this letter is the same as the Arabic دال which is not true and you can notice their mistake when they pronounce words like Door, Dumb, Dark with the Arabic دال.

[@nadineahmed2672]

@@proudg9026 thank you for replying. yes, Arabic is my mother tongue. I didn't get the part when said that the letter "d" is not the same as the Arabic letter "dal". could you please elaborate more on that as I've always thought that both letters are equivalent to each other. I would appreciate if you point out the difference between the two letters. thanks.

[@lisetebarretosilva1130]

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[@lali712]

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[@OutlierEnglish]

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[@himanshumann9182]

Which app is this bro ???

[@SoundsAmerican]

We're using our own app, but we haven't released it to the public yet. We're planning to do it very soon and we'll announce the release on this channel. Stay tuned!

[@himanshumann9182]

@@SoundsAmerican can you plz explain me better bcoz i face problem in only d consonant , through video call .

[@mst7644]

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[@miltona.s.junior3708]

To make video pronunciation consoant sounds T

[@SoundsAmerican]

+Milton A.S. Júnior , Here you go: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o33PoKeMlJWXiKs& Enjoy!