One of my students wrote asking.
Hi! I'm preparing phonetics I and I have a doubt about the post-alveolar assimilation. You taught us that it is mark when there is a t-d followed by the post-alveolar approximant. But now, I was told that when there is a consonant followed by the post-alveolar approximant we have to turn this phoneme as when it occurs with t-d. So, which sounds are affected?
I hope you don't mind that whenever I have a doubt i will ask you.
Thank you very much!
The fact is that the /r/, when it follows voiced and voiceless plosives,fricatives in the same syllable and clusters, is always fricative (that "turning upside down" you speak about). Try pronouncing it and you'll feel it.
Hope it helps.
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