• see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. Final-obstruent devoicing or terminal devoicing is a systematic phonological process occurring in languages...
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  • world. Final obstruent devoicing is the full devoicing of final obstruents that occurs for some AAVE speakers in Detroit where obstruents are devoiced at...
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    Characteristics not shared with either Old Saxon or Old High German Final obstruent devoicing. This later spread to the other Germanic dialects (as well as...
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  • Frisian has final obstruent devoicing and so voiced obstruents are merged with the voiceless obstruents at the end of words. Thus, word-final /b, d, v,...
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    grammatical consequences – as well as the use of modal particles, final-obstruent devoicing, and (similar) word order. Dutch vocabulary is mostly Germanic;...
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  • regional pronunciation differences. Catalan is characterized by final-obstruent devoicing, lenition, and voicing assimilation; a set of 7 to 8 phonemic...
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    dialects is pronounced /dʒ/ in standard Valencian. Voiced obstruents undergo final-obstruent devoicing: /b/ > [p], /d/ > [t], /ɡ/ > [k]. Voiced stops become...
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  • One very common example of a surface filter is final-obstruent devoicing in which a voiced obstruent at the end of a word is automatically converted...
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  • writes Србија/Srbija "Serbia" but српски/srpski "Serbian". The final-obstruent devoicing that occurs in many languages (such as German, Polish and Russian)...
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  • case with the final-obstruent devoicing of German, Turkish, Russian, and other languages whose voiced obstruent consonants are devoiced pre-pausa and...
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  • (pronounced the same, an orthographic change), *-D-, *-j- > *-d-. Final-obstruent devoicing of *-b, *-d, and *-g to *-p, *-t, *-k, except in the case of *-D...
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    plosion, nasal plosion, partial devoicing of sonorants, complete devoicing of sonorants, partial devoicing of obstruents, lengthening and shortening vowels...
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  • sometimes mistaken as "Life Is Life": Standard German phonology has final-obstruent devoicing, so that the word "live" sounds like "life". After having released...
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    orthography reflects final-obstruent devoicing, a form of consonant mutation whereby a voiced obstruent, such as /b d dʒ ɡ/, is devoiced to [p t tʃ k] at...
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  • See Dutch orthography for more information. Because of regular final-obstruent devoicing, the past participle ending is pronounced with a voiceless /t/...
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    terms, follow the links on the headings. Notes: All obstruents underwent final-obstruent devoicing as in Old and Modern Dutch. During the first part of...
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  • Standard German, final-obstruent devoicing does not occur and so speakers are more likely to retain the original pronunciation of word-final lenes (although...
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  • Nervosität have /v/), naiv "naïve" (this word follows the rule of final obstruent devoicing, its forms and derivatives have /v/: Naive, Naivität), brav "brave"...
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    of word-final /z/. Only Old High German preserves it at all (as /r/) and only in single-syllable words. Following the later loss of word-final /a/ and...
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    "party, feast"), tchestea (Fr. château "castle"), and so on. Final obstruent devoicing: rodje "red" is pronounced exactly as rotche "rock". Nasal vowels...
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    the ⟨tz⟩ spelling. Also due to final-obstruent devoicing, word-final instances of /dʒ/ would devoice to /tʃ/ (such as final -⟨ig⟩: puig 'hill', mig 'half')...
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    languages like French or Czech). Maltese has final-obstruent devoicing of voiced obstruents and word-final voiceless stops have no audible release, making...
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  • Phonemic devoicing like this (which may be marked in spelling) has been argued to be conditioned by the presence of another voiced obstruent. Another...
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  • realised as a [t] (closer to the Arabic ت) which follows Afrikaans Final-obstruent devoicing principles. Ahmad ibn Hanbal, (780–855) was an Arab Muslim jurist...
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  • Midslands it is the only dialect of Dutch which does not feature final obstruent devoicing. Jansen, Mathilde, and Marc van Oostendorp, Taal van de Wadden...
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  • The Kerkrade dialect features final-obstruent devoicing, which means that the underlying /b, d, ɡ, v, z, ʒ, ɣ/ are devoiced to [p, t, k, f, s, ʃ, χ ~ ç]...
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  • fortition of fricative [s] to affricate [ts]. Consonant mutation Final-obstruent devoicing Grimm's law Historical linguistics Sesotho nasalization Carr,...
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  • (except for the exceptions above) No /b, d͡ʒ, d, ɟ, ɡ/ in coda (see Final-obstruent devoicing), except for some recent loanwords such as psikolog and some contrasting...
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    The second element corresponds to Middle High German wîc, with final-obstruent devoicing, as in Ludewic. The Middle Dutch form is wijch (modern Dutch wijg;...
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    apgabals [ˈabɡabals] or labs [ˈlaps]. Latvian does not feature final-obstruent devoicing. Consonants can be long (written as double consonants) mamma [ˈmamːa]...
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