Abstract
Based on the Buckeye Corpus of Conversational Speech, this paper analyzes patterns of alveolar stop variations between vowels in which consonantal lenition commonly apply cross-linguistically. The results showed that flapping was most prevalent among many possible weakening alternations such as flapping, glottaling, voicing and deletion. The underlying voicing contrast, however, did not give rise to the durational contrast of the preceding vowel but was subject to the different patterns of variations. Hence flapping was prevalent for voiced alveolar stops while both glottaling, voicing, deletion and flapping were for voiceless alveolar stops. The vowels before a voiced alveolar stop were not longer than the ones before a voiced counterpart, which means that unlike the well-recognized assumption, in English, vowel lengthening before a voiced sound does not apply in a casual speech.
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