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Lesson 54: [ɾ] – Butter, ladder, water. Master the voiced alveolar flap [ɾ] in Standard American English.
Master the voiced alveolar flap — how /t/ and /d/ become a flap between vowels in natural American speech.
Lesson 55: [ʔ] – Button, mountain, uh-oh. Master the glottal stop [ʔ] in Standard American English.
Master the glottal stop — when /t/ becomes a throat catch in casual Standard American English.
Lesson 56: [j] – New, tune, duke. Master yod-dropping of the voiced palatal approximant [j] in Standard American English.
Master yod-dropping — when /j/ disappears or coalesces in American English pronunciation.
Lesson 57: [ɫ] – Milk, full, bell. Master dark L and L-vocalization of the velarized alveolar lateral approximant [ɫ] in Standard American English.
Master dark L and L-vocalization — how /l/ changes at the end of syllables in Standard American English.
Lesson 58: [ɑ/ɔ] – Don/dawn, cot/caught, stock/stalk. Master the cot-caught vowel merger in Standard American English.
Master the cot-caught merger — the low-back vowel merger in Standard American English.
Lesson 59: [ɪ/ɛ] – Pin/pen, him/hem, tin/ten. Master the pin-pen merger before nasal consonants in Standard American English.
Master the pin-pen merger — when [ɪ] and [ɛ] merge before nasal consonants.