Master American English! Linking with the P /p/ Consonant

[@ramzy-6566]

amazing video for P sound. Thank you.

[@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent]

Thanks so much! I'm glad the video was helpful, Ramzy :) I appreciate your comment!

[@ramzy-6566]

Great video for /p/ Consonant. Thank you.

[@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent]

Hi Ramzy - Thanks for your comment! :) I'm happy that this video was helpful!

[@Gene0723]

Great video.

[@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent]

Hi Gene - Thanks so much for your comment! I'm glad this video was helpful! :)

[@ramzy-6566]

Thank you, Mrs. Julie. for great video for P sound.

[@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent]

You're very welcome! I'm glad you liked the video! :)

[@grahamh.4230]

I think a truly aspirated word-final /p/ realize is stronger than we would usually do. I think it is usually tenuis besides when it lacks audible realize.

[@evamariacronkite3028]

To little centences

[@grahamh.4230]

@@evamariacronkite3028 ?

[@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent]

Hi Graham - Thanks for your perspective on this issue. It's always good to learn about other people's opinions about pronunciation! :)

[@grahamh.4230]

@@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent I don’t want to be disrespectful since I know you have way more experience in pronunciation than I do, but I think my observation above was less of an “opinion” about an “issue” and more of a widely-supported observation based on basic phonetics knowledge that a sixteen year old like me can learn online in a few months. It’s clear than there are more than just two allophones of fortis plosives in English - 1) aspirated (strong pulmonic release), 2) no audible release, 3) tenuis (audible release but no strong aspiration), 4) ejective (glottalic release), and many more that don’t occur as much in my accent including 5) affricated and 6) spirantized. In my dialect (sort of general Midwestern) I think word-final /p/ is usually type 3. Consider the phrase “rope arts.” We can’t aspirate the /p/ or else we’d get “row parts.” Additionally, this “rope arts” /p/ is the same allophone of /p/ as in “happy,” which does not lack an audible release. You can check out Dr. John Wells’s article on stops with no audible release to learn that occlusives with no audible release really only occur when another occlusive (like a glottal stop) is present to mask the release. This clearly isn’t the case for “rope arts” unless you use an unnaturally hard attack (epenthetic glottal stop) between the words. Therefore, this /p/ - and, indeed, most word-final /p/s and /k/s in my accent (and very likely yours) - is neither unreleased nor aspirated, but instead tenuis.

[@grahamh.4230]

I’ll add that I don’t think what I said above is necessarily true for /t/ - it really does have no audible alveolar release in my idiolect at the end of words because the /t/ is often masked by a glottal stop which either reinforces or replaces it. However, tenuis /t/ is absolutely also very standard.

[@whyserious4596]

great explanation, thank you very much, but i have a question please if i don't release air when linking with p and b how i can differentiate between them at linking with constant?

[@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent]

Hi why serious - Thanks for your question! There are two ways to differentiate between /p/ and /b/ when linking with a consonant: Voicing (/b/ is voiced, /p/ is not) and vowel length (vowels before /b/ will be longer than vowels before /p/). I hope this helps! :)

[@ramzy-6566]

i like /p/ Consonant because we don't have in Arabic.

[@SanDiegoVoiceandAccent]

Yes, very true! Thanks, Ramzy :)

[@richardfrangie3518]

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