hi everyone on Wordsmith.
I am a chinese student, i have priviously raise a quetion here on Wordsmith .
this is my second time.
i found a interesting phenomenon in English, in fact,not i
found it, all of u English speaker speaks it,and u must be familiar with it.
that is the pronunciation difference between "can" and "can't".
as we know, "can't" is the short form of " can not" the pronunciation of
it shoud be can plus a plosion 't'. but in the real life, the plosion 't' is
hard to be heard and hard to distinguish two words.and i saw many movie and
tv programs which is performed by Americans or English,u show the difference
be "can"and "can't" is not by the last plosion 't', u r using the tones (tonation?)
to distinguish "can" and "can't"(the basic charateristic feature in chinese) , which "can" using the first tone(in the official
Chinese) , and "can't" using the 4th tone (also official Chinese);
can u all English lover give some comment about my humble remarkes?