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A little bit
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We have a lot of fast quick syllables;
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We have the schwa
A, a, a little,
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a little, a little.
We have a little bit
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more length and stress on our stress syllable
here, but still the word is pretty fast.
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The two T's here make a flap T.
And I know that my students sometimes
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really struggle with flap T plus a
dark L, which is what we have here.
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Li [flap],
little, little, little, little.
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So the tip of the tongue bounces up for the flap,
then comes down and the back of the tongue makes
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that dark sound --
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little [flap].
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So this is a case where you really want
to be aware that it's just the back of the
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tongue that's making your flap, that's making
your dark L, not the tip, the tip comes down.
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The tips just done work for the flap T so
let it flat back down and then use the back
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of the tongue for the dark L --
A little, a little, a little bit.
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A little bit closer.
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