Sound of "ed" in the end of word

[Ackeiyword]

I'm confused when you American say "stoped" or "listedned", the last word "ed", you pronounce "t" or "d"? I always forget the rule, and do you really pronouce them clearly as "t" or "d"?

[Lequanftu]

It's not quite the rule. As you know, /t/ is voiceless and "-ed" has to be pronounced /t/ if the word ends with a voiceless consonant. For instance: cooked, stopped.
You may have an experiment as follow: Try to pronounce cooked by /kukd/ and /kukt/. If you pronounce correctly, you will see that the first one is very hard to pronounce, and the other is quite easy.
I hope it can help you.
Sorry for my grammatical mistake :D.

[Alan]

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Hi,

Some people make a point of pronouncing the 't' sound and the 'ed' sound at the end of a verb past tense or participle quite clearly. An example is the past of 'learn' that has two spellings 'learnt' and 'learned'. I can't tell you what an American speaker would say.

Alan
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