Reducing “today”

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today

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Tom what did you do today it's on what

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did you do today today today today I

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woke up now here we have today three

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times always the first syllable is

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reduced to the schwa sound but I'm

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noticing that these T's are all true T's

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and not flap T's that's because they're

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beginning sentences so we're not going

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to reduce that to a flap T in the case

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up here do today it came the T in today

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came between a vowel do the vowel and

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the schwa sound and that's why we made

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this a flap sound but here we're

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beginning a sentence so we're gonna go

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ahead and give it the true T sound

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though we will most definitely reduce to

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the schwa today today today today today

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today today Tom what did you do today

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today today today I woke up everything

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was very connected there and I know that

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when we have something ending in a vowel

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or diphthong sound and the next word

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beginning in a vowel or diphthong sound

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that we want that to really glide

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together today I today I today I and any

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time we have a word that begins with a

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vowel we want to say hmm does the word

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before end in

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consonant sound it does it ends in the K

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consonant sound