Comment on In songs sung in English, a word ending with "t" followed by "you" sometimes makes the "you" sound like "chew". Does this happen in other languages with different words/sounds?

circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

In linguistics this is called a coarticulatory effect, and it’s caused by needing to move the articulators between two positions rapidly. As such, it can be thought of as a kind of “hardware” limitation of humans, as opposed to a “software” limitation of any single language. Whether other languages would have the same sounds in sequence is the main factor.

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