Patients pronunces same to patience? So how about "rice" and "right"?
or only /ns/ in the end of word same to /ts/?
or only /ns/ in the end of word same to /ts/?
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Patients pronunces same to patience?
Patients pronunces same to patience? So how about "rice" and "right"?
or only /ns/ in the end of word same to /ts/?
Yes to patients and patience sounding the same. No, rice and right are not pronounced the same. There is no rule to explain this. You just have to remember.
You could pronounce patients and patience the same. There is a subtle difference when I pronounce them, though.
Rice and right are pronounced differently.
I think I, too, have a tendency to stress the final T-sound a little more in "patients". But it's subtle.
As far as I know, this is a case of epenthesis (the insertion of a plosive sound that is produced in the same area). Thus, we should say patience without a /t/ in extremely careful pronunciation, but if we just dwell on the transition between /n/ and /s/, a plosive /t/ is likely to be present. The same happens with length /leN(k)T/, etc.
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