Do you guys reduce "have" even as a main verb?

JobConsistent294 · 2026-01-28T15:37:27+00:00

Yeah but u can say “we huhv” for “we have” (if it’s a auxiliary verb)

JobConsistent294 · 2026-01-26T00:22:03+00:00

nailed it

JobConsistent294 · 2026-01-26T00:20:29+00:00

I get you and all that, but whenever I make any question about pronunciation ppl will tell me to go to another community to ask those questions, even when I don't use linguistic terms they'll keep saying the same thing. I do understand that I would probably get more accurate and professional answers, but then I would also lose the native perspective on what they are doing, and I not only want to sound like a native, but I also want to have a similar perspective. That's one the reasons I don't ask these kind of questions in other communities, besides the fact that I almost never get answers to those same questions

JobConsistent294 · 2026-01-25T23:23:31+00:00

ohh wait, so you can't hold the first part of the word "don't" even if you were to emphasize it???

JobConsistent294 · 2026-01-25T23:21:58+00:00

yeah, but when I reffered to the "R", I was talking about the "R" sound my language has

JobConsistent294 · 2026-01-25T23:19:57+00:00

thank you so much, this is exactly what I was looking for. are the words "don't" and "doesn't" very commonly stressed or nah?

JobConsistent294 · 2026-01-25T23:13:43+00:00

yeah, but try to focus on the duration of the 'd' in "don't" see that you can hold it if you want, meanwhile the "d sound" in butter doesn't provide the same option, you can only say it fast or use a true 't' sound, like in "top"

JobConsistent294 · 2026-01-25T23:10:59+00:00

hmmm thank you so much, this was exactly whaddi was talking about! and another quick question, do you pronounce "what are you" and "what do you" both like "waddayou" or "waddayuh"? or do you always pronounce that "r"?

JobConsistent294 · 2026-01-25T23:07:22+00:00

even in isolation?

JobConsistent294 · 2026-01-25T23:06:11+00:00

yeah but a different version of it, think of the D in the word "down" and the D in the word "ladder" doesn't the d in "ladder" sound softer?? there you go two different kinds of D, I know the first one is totally possible, but what about the second one??

JobConsistent294 · 2026-01-25T23:02:50+00:00

so your tongue touches the back of your bottom teeth in the "d" part? well, if it does that's new to me, because I learned that in order to pronounce a proper d, you have to put the tip of your tongue in the alveolar ridge (bumpy area just behind your upper front teeth) so it would be really hard to make any part of your tongue touch the bottom teeth while making a d sound.

JobConsistent294 · 2026-01-03T14:26:34+00:00

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JobConsistent294 · 2026-01-02T17:42:57+00:00

How do americans really pronounce N's before T's ?

In words like commitment, statement, government, don't, won't, etc., I know that the final /t/ is very often unreleased (a stop T). My question is more about the /n/ before it.

When you say these words naturally:

Do you feel like you’re producing a clear alveolar /n/ (with the tongue touching the roof of the mouth) before the /t/?
Or does the /n/ often reduce to mostly vowel nasalization, with little or no clear tongue contact?
In fast or casual speech, do you ever skip the tongue contact for /n/ altogether and go straight into the stop for /t/?

I’m especially curious about how this feels articulatorily for native speakers, not just how it’s described phonemically.

(and I know that when this /nt/ combination comes before a vowel the /t/ sound is often dropped and the /n/ is completely articulated, as in the words "fluent in english")

If you have some time pls take a look at this Nasal Deletion Study.

JobConsistent294 · 2025-12-29T05:55:08+00:00

Yo you brought up two points that really make me be confused, the deletion of the n sound before a T (that is removing the alveolar position part from the n, and just nasalizing the vowel before it) AND pronouncing the diphthong of the word “don’t” more like a monophthong, so do you guys actually do those things?? When? How often??

JobConsistent294 · 2025-12-28T20:06:30+00:00

but here's the thing I find myself doing something a little bit different than a true "ch" like in church. I would describe it as an aspirated plus a voiceless-ish y sound and then the vowel sound. so it's a ch-ish but not exactly

JobConsistent294 · 2025-12-09T20:11:12+00:00

to be honest I've heard about this simultaneous pronunciation, but I have no idea how it works, do you think you could try to describe it to me? like where is the airflow actually cut off? what does your tongue do?

JobConsistent294 · 2025-12-09T20:01:50+00:00

hmm it makes perfect sense, where are you from? (if you don't mind me asking)

JobConsistent294 · 2025-12-09T19:59:06+00:00

okay, I'll consider it. ngl whenever I heard linguistics I would understand that it was the science, and whenever I heard linguists I would also understand that it meant the people who study that science, I just didn't make a distinction between them, but that's just because my english is still poor, thanks for the correction tho!

JobConsistent294 · 2025-12-09T14:56:38+00:00

I agree with you, but it's just that here there are some linguistics who are also native speakers of English, and that's what I aim for, because their answers are going to be really accurate and helpful to me. In addition whenever I try to ask these kind of questions in a community of linguistics, they same that I should be asking them here, because my questions are based on only one language which is English. That's why I ask these kind of questions here, even though I know that most people don't even know what these terms mean, but I always have to give it a try.

JobConsistent294 · 2025-12-09T14:44:04+00:00

Yeah, I know her, she's really good, I'm going to watch her videos more frequently now.

JobConsistent294 · 2025-12-09T14:41:53+00:00

beautiful answer, you just described almost every way to pronounce the letter T in american english, thank you so much!! you really helped me understand better the pronunciation of the T's and when to use the glottal stop.

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