I have two questions about the pronunciations of 't' in English.
1. A native speaker tells that Americans pronounce 't' in rebuttal as 'd', and the British pronounce 't' as 't'.
I went to check the online Cambridge Dictionary which states the almost same phonetic signs in both AmE and BrE.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictio ... d/rebuttal
rebuttal
noun [ C ] formal
UK /rɪˈbʌt.əl/ US /rɪˈbʌt̬.əl/
I wonder why the dictionary doesn't state the word as /rɪˈbʌd.əl/ in AmE.
There's an arrow below 't' in AmE US /rɪˈbʌt̬.əl/. Does it mean 't' is pronounced as 'd'?
2. In AmE, someone says native speakers don't actually pronounce the last 't' in 'important', 'can't' etc.
Do the British pronounce 't' in the words I mentioned above?
I am curious whether or not native speakers do pronounce 't' in 'night'. I watched the video of musical named Phanton of the Opera in which Sarah Brightman pronounces 't' of the night very weak; while in a music competition, two Chinese singers pronounce 't' very clearly in the same musical. I asked this is because the pronunciation of musical is probably different from that in daily speeches.
Thank you!
P.S. The title of this thread is not for specific questions, because I don't wish to flood the forum with my questions of English, and probably I will post my other questions now and then.