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T-glottaling (aka 'T dropping') has been spreading in American speech via a conspiracy of two different strategies.

0:00 Introduction
1:02 T flapping (tapping)
2:09 T glottaling
6:03 Conspiracy in linguistics
7:15 Ground News
8:55 Unpacking syllabic N
12:41 Hard attack
17:39 Summing up
18:35 Explaining the conspiracy
20:43 Covert prestige
22:32 Help!
23:09 My wrong prediction

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