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Originally Posted by KyleGoetz
I don't think anyone really enunciates the "t" clearly in daily speech. Yes, in poetry readings or speeches they do.
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This reminds me of an episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent in which they were somehow able to bust a guy because both he and his daughter enunciated their Ts.
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In SAE, we schwa the "a" in "can" in normal speech. Don't we?
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This is true if something follows "can." If I just say "I/he/she can," the 'a' is the same as in "can't" whether the subject or the verb is stressed, but the sound is held longer than in "can't."