Flap
A sound in which the tongue taps the alveolar ridge very quickly, so that it sounds
like a quick /d/. In American English, this sound is often found as an allophone of /t/
or /d/ between vowels in words like city, water, and middle.
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Section 4 - The Consonants of American English
Allophones, Flapped /t/ (or tapped /t/), Tapped /t/ (or flapped /t/)
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