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    The elision of /t/ or /d/ when flanked by consonants requires that the preceding consonant matches in terms of voicing. This isn't the case in don't be where the preceding consonant is a voiced /n/. So you know for future posts, /t/ is freely elided in negative contractions. The relative likelihood is glottal stop, very likely; elision quite likely; [t] relatively unlikely. Commented Feb 15, 2021 at 0:27
  • @Araucaria-Nothereanymore.: The elision of /t/ or /d/ when flanked by consonants requires that the preceding consonant matches in terms of voicing /// I didn't know that. Thanks! Commented Feb 15, 2021 at 3:05
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    That’s why you can’t drop the /t/ in built this. (Note as well that consonants in codas don’t have to match in voicing! That’s only true of obstruents) Commented Feb 15, 2021 at 3:24