Stop consonants

[Carolina1983]

Hello!

Teachers, do you agree that, when we say stop consonants are, often, unreleased at the end of words, we are saying if a consonant follows?

For example: They bought her dress. Their friend came.

In other words, do you agree that, if a vowel follows and you do not drop the consonant, there will be, necessarily, a release?

For example: The grand opening is tomorrow (you aren´t saying "gran" opening, so there is no way but to release the "d").
She went away.


Help?
Thanks!

 

[probus]

Maybe I'm failing to understand the question, but this appears to me to be a reworking of the same matter we just discussed in another thread. The release is the plosion. If there is no release, the plosive consonant has not been pronounced. It has been dropped or swallowed.

 

[Raymott]

I believe the last question was about 'grand' before a consonant, eg. "grand piano". Here we have "grand opening", ie. before a vowel.
Yes, the 'd' is released, almost as in "gran dopening".

 

[Carolina1983]

Hello, all!

Thank you for the input. I´m sorry if I seem to keep going over the same thing, it´s just English is sooo full of subtleties! Isn´t it?

Thanks again!