Southwestern phonology: consonants T

Southwestern accents have variable T glottaling in syllable-final pre-pausal and intervocalic position. Wells (1982: 344) gives  dirty water as an example of the sort of glottalled pronunciation frequently found in Bristol, and cites a study in which it is stated that glottalling of /k/ renders lot and lock homophonous at . In intervocalic position, a widespread alternative to T glottaling is T voicing. Wells (1982: 344) reports tapping of /r/ to be “certainly very common” in butter, beautiful, hospital in urban areas of the Southwest. voicing of intervocalic /p/ and /k/ is also said to occur.