I heard from TV characters that they pronounce "smoked" as "smoke +t" but not "smoke + ed" ?? could someone tell me why, please??
Because /k/ is as unvoiced consonant. You can expect to hear /t/ at the end of most past participles ending like this:
/f/ coughed, /koft/
/k/ backed, /bakt/
/p/ stopped, /stopt/
/s/ passed, /past/
/x/ hoaxed. /hoakst/
If there is a schwa between the base verb and the 'd', it will be /d/:
/t/ batted, /bat'd/
Last edited by Raymott; 08-Jun-2010 at 05:08. Reason: Change voiced to unvoiced
Would it be incorrect to pronounce batted as /bat't/?
thank's about the reply and for ur clear point