-
phonological environment;
shift in the
opposite direction is
referred to as
devoicing or surdization. Most commonly, the
change is a
result of
sound ****imilation...
- IPA § Brackets and
transcription delimiters. Final-obstruent
devoicing or
terminal devoicing is a
systematic phonological process occurring in languages...
-
International Phonetic Alphabet have a
notation for
partial voicing and
devoicing as well as for prevoicing:
Partial voicing can mean
light but continuous...
- lack of plosion,
nasal plosion,
partial devoicing of sonorants,
complete devoicing of sonorants,
partial devoicing of obstruents,
lengthening and shortening...
- alveolo-palatal
nasal may be
transcribed as ⟨n̠̊ʲ⟩ (
devoiced,
retracted and
palatalized ⟨n⟩), or ⟨ɲ̟̊⟩ (
devoiced and
advanced ⟨ɲ⟩);
these are
essentially equivalent...
- [ʍ]). /j/ can also be
voiceless [j̊] (sounds like [hj]). /h/: "A
vowel devoices if the
vowel and a
following [h] are in an odd-numbered syllable." For...
- [fʊɫ], GA
light [ɫaɪt] All
sonorants (liquids /l, r/ and
nasals /m, n, ŋ/)
devoice when
following a
voiceless obstruent, and they are
syllabic when following...
- bet and bed or
between back, bag, beck and beg. This is
because Dutch devoices obstruents at the end of a word.
Dutch also does not
distinguish between...
-
Vowel devoicing:
Blackfoot language §
Vowel devoicing Cayuga language §
Devoiced vowels French phonology §
Devoicing ****anese
phonology §
Devoicing Apheresis...
- A
related change, the
devoicing of the
voiced stopped consonants /d/, /b/ and /g/, was less widespread, with only the
devoicing of /d/
being found in...
