Speech Sounds by Age (and How to Teach Them)

Mark Byron Dallas on Instagram: "General American speakers (and most Canadians these days) tend to drop their yods after any alveolar consonant. The alveola is the technical word for the tooA yod is the "y" sound, represented by the [j] symbol in IPA, and you won't usually hear it in a North American accent before a /u/ if it follows /t/ or /d/ (alveolar plosives), /s/ or /z/ (alveolar fricatives), /l/ (alveolar lateral approximant), or /n/ (alveolar nasal). Coalescence is when two or more speec