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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...
- it
sounds unnatural to use a
voiced vowel in
positions where devoicing is usual.
Devoicing mainly affects the
short high (close)
vowels /i/ and /u/ when...
- 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...
-
voicing or
devoicing is
atypical of the
language being spoken. For example, ⟨z̥⟩
would be used for the
usual devoicing or
partial devoicing of the language...
- This
count excludes the
results of
allophonic devoicing,
which are
spelled with a dot over vowels.
Devoicing naturally occurs in the last
vowel of a word...
- is no
longer the
structure /bt/
subject to the
partial ****imilation of
devoicing of /b/ and full ****imilation to
produce [tt]. Over time,
phonetic [tt]...
- dialects,
while in
Bohemia the /ɦ/ is
devoiced to /x/
instead (e.g.
shodit /sxoɟɪt/, in
Moravia /zɦoɟɪt/).
Devoicing /ɦ/
changes its
articulation place:...
