[General] Alveolar plosive and alveolar stop also.

[The apprentice]

Dear members and friends.


In connected speech, as well as in isolated words, when the /t/ and /y/ sounds find each other, they assimilate the /tʃ/ sound as in ''nice to meet you''; I don't want to hurt you''; picture'' and so forth. I would like to know if you native speakers merge the /t/ and /y/ phonemes in the examples below:
(a) How about you?
(b) Not yet.
(c) Mom hasn't cooked yet.

I've never heard YET merging into another sound which is prior to it.

 

[SoothingDave]

They merge for me. Unless I am carefully enunciating for emphasis, or some other purpose.

"Did you eat yet?" in casual conversation sounds like "jew eat jet"?

 

[bhaisahab]

I tend not to merge them. I would never say "Did you eat yet?" I would say "Have you eaten (yet)?"

 

[The apprentice]

According to your comments Baisahab and SoothingDave, the pronunciation of the words in my examples might be:

about you : /əbaʊt juː/ or /əbaʊːʧuː/
not yet : /nɒt jet/ or /nɒʧet/
cooked yet: /kʊkt jet/ or /kʊkʧet/

As you know, the consonant T is part of the alveolar plosive or alveolar stop consonants (p,t,k, b,d,g), and it seems to me that this is the reason (why) they're also called stop consonants; a stop can be made at the /t/ sound, and YOU/YET pronounced alone.