"[...] the flapping of intervocalic /t/ in American English in generally said to be conditioned by adjacent segments and boundaries (cf. Kahn 1976), but the contrasting word-initial /t/'s of _by tomorrow_ (flapped) and _buy tomatoes_ (unflapped) reveal a contrast in prosodic foot structure (i.e., only foot-internal /t/ flaps) ― a level of prosody largely ignored in descriptive studies (including the many sociolinguistic attempts to document the details of change in progress)."
― Robert T. Harms
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