WorksheetsPhonetics Knowledge Check-Alveolar Tap & Glottal Stop
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
The alveolar tap/flap is made by the vocal folds stopping airflow followed by a quick release
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Sometimes the alveolar tap and the glottal stop can be used interchangeably
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Usually in General American English the Glottal Stop happens in the intervocalic (between two syllables) position of a word
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When two sounds share the same place of articulation they are usually called
Vowels
Cognates
Homorganic
Syllables
A word like "data" could include an alveolar tap/flap
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A word like Cotton could use an alveolar tap or glottal stop
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A word like MATERNAL could have an alveolar tap
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A word like Better could have an alveolar tap
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Common letters/graphemes that you may see the alveolar tap in place of are "t", "tt", "d", "dd"
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The Glottal Stop is made by the tongue tip touching the alveolar ridge
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