Linking Different stop consonants and aspiration

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Zoli

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Hello, my American Accent book says:
To link different stop consonants, hold the airflow on the first one and release it on the second one.

Examples:

bigtime
necktie

Have a goodtime.

I know that T is aspirated when it begins a stressed syllable, but when we hold the airflow on the first one and release it on T does the aspiration still apply? In other words, do we pronounce an aspirated T even if the stop consonants are linked?
 
Could you provide some examples of what you are asking about?

If it is things like

next_time
next_day

the first t sound is usually omitted completely.
 
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