Phonological Processing When to Americans flap /t/? It needs to be between vowels or after an r or l city, altar, faculty, atom, auto not interior, atrium, attract, tense

Phonological Processing When to Americans flap /t/? It needs to be between vowels or after an r or l city, altar, faculty, atom, auto not interior, atrium, attract, tense It needs to be followed by a stressless syllable city, altar, faculty, atom attack, atonement

Phonological Processing Stress predicts 98% of cases

Phonological Processing Experiment Which sounds more natural to you? ['dəɾejs] or ['dəthejs] [də'thejs] or [də'ɾejs]

Phonological Processing Experiment Which sounds more natural to you? ['dəɾejs] or ['dəthejs] [də'thejs] or [də'ɾejs] People favored flaps when followed by an unstressed syllable People favored /t/ when followed by a stressed styllable

Phonological Processing When to Americans flap /t/? What about syllable structure? Theory 1: flaps occur in the onset ci.ty, a.tom

Phonological Processing When to Americans flap /t/? What about syllable structure? Theory 1: flaps occur in the onset ci.ty, a.tom Theory 2: flaps occur in the coda cit.y, at. om

Phonological Processing When to Americans flap /t/? What about syllable structure? Theory 1: flaps occur in the onset ci.ty, a.tom Theory 2: flaps occur in the coda cit.y, at. om Theory 3: flaps are ambisyllabic (ci(t)y), (a(t)om)

Phonological Processing When to Americans flap /t/? What about syllable structure? Theory 1: flaps occur in the onset ci.ty, a.tom Theory 2: flaps occur in the coda cit.y, at. om Theory 3: flaps are ambisyllabic (ci(t)y), (a(t)om) How could you prove one or the other?

Phonological Processing Experiment: how do you divide words? photon ___ FOW / TAHN ___ FOWT / AHN ___ I’m not sure

Phonological Processing Experiment: how do you divide words? photon ___ FOW / TAHN ___ FOWT / AHN ___ I’m not sure (This can't test ambisyllabicity)

Phonological Processing Experiment: What influences the syllabification of /t/ into the onset? stress?

Phonological Processing Experiment: What influences the syllabification of /t/ into the onset? stress? No a.ttáck no likelier than á.ttic

Phonological Processing Experiment: What influences the syllabification of /t/ into the onset? vowel quality?

Phonological Processing Experiment: What influences the syllabification of /t/ into the onset? vowel quality? Not by itself

Phonological Processing Experiment: What influences the syllabification of /t/ into the onset? vowel quality by pronunciation of /t/?

Phonological Processing Experiment: What influences the syllabification of /t/ into the onset? vowel quality by pronunciation of /t/? Yes People put words with [th] pronunciation in onset when lax vowel preceded it a.ttach sa.tire and when tense vowel preceded it pho.ton

Phonological Processing Experiment: What influences the syllabification of /t/ into the onset? vowel quality by pronunciation of /t/? Yes But, people put words with flap pronunciation in the coda when lax vowel preceded it: att.ic flutt.er and in the onset when a tense vowel preceded it: suit.or teet.er

Phonological Processing Experiment: What influences the syllabification of /t/ into the onset? vowel quality by pronunciation of /t/? Yes But, people put words with flap pronunciation in the coda when lax vowel preceded it: att.ic flutt.er and in the onset when a tense vowel preceded it: suit.or teet.er So flaps occur in both the coda and the onset How does that fit with theory that flaps are conditioned by being in onset or coda?

Phonological Processing Does ambisyllabicity condition flaps? Experiment: What is the first part of city: ci or cit? What is the second part of city: y or ty?

Phonological Processing Does ambisyllabicity condition flaps? Experiment: What is the first part of city: ci or cit? What is the second part of city: y or ty? Ambisyllabicity if first part is cit and second is ty.

Phonological Processing Does ambisyllabicity condition flaps? Experiment: What is the first part of city: ci or cit? What is the second part of city: y or ty? Ambisyllabicity if first part is cit and second is ty. Words with [th] had it mainly in the onset first part of attack is a- second part of attack is -ttack

Phonological Processing Does ambisyllabicity condition flaps? Experiment: What is the first part of city: ci or cit? What is the second part of city: y or ty? Ambisyllabicity if first part is cit and second is ty. Words with flap had it in onset, coda, ambisyllabic. All over the place

Phonological Processing Does ambisyllabicity condition flaps? Experiment: What is the first part of city: ci or cit? What is the second part of city: y or ty? Ambisyllabicity if first part is cit and second is ty. Words with flap had it in onset, coda, ambisyllabic. All over the place So, ambisyllabicity (or onset or coda) is not consistently associated with flaps and therefore, can't condition them