![]() It's not true that you won't sound native if you pronounce a final stop with aspiration. In fact I don't think you can say that all speakers of American English treat any final stop in any situation the same all the time. Sometimes they do and sometimes they don't. ![]() I disagree that speakers of American English always pronounce the final stop without aspiration. I would say yes, you can make the unaspirated /t/ sound at the end of all of those words and sound like you've been speaking American English all of your life, whether they're in a sentence or by themselves. I'm not a trained linguist, just a very observant student of language who pays attention to how my compatriots speak. But as I said, I am not sure about the situations where the clause or the sentence ends with /st/, /lt/, /rt/ etc. But can it be unaspirated also in a sentence like "I am the best.", where the /t/ is the last sound of the sentence and there is another consonant before it? If the sentence was "I am so hot", the /t/ could be unaspirated. But can I make the same unaspirated sound when those kinds of words are at the end of sentences or clauses, or when they are the only word in a sentence? For example If I say "I am the best player in the team", I know that the /t/ in "best" can be unaspirated. ![]() Can we do the same thing if there are other consonants than /n/ before the final /t/ as well? Or do I have to aspirate the /t/ in the words like "best", "worst", "greatest", "first", "belt", "port", "part" etc.? I mean, I know that when this kind of words are in the middle of a sentence, we can make the unaspirated /t/ sound. As far as I know, if there is a vowel before the final /t/ or if there is the letter /n/ before the final /t/, we can make an unaspirated /t/ sound in American English. ![]()
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