Re: "Transferral" verb form in LC-01

John Cowan writes:
 > Tim May scripsit:
 >
 > > Do you know much about why final devoicing occurs?  Are there any
 > > languages with an aspirated/nonaspirated distinction which have final
 > > deaspiration?
 >
 > AFAIK the languages where asp/nonasp is dominant simply don't have
 > asp stops finally at all, though doubtless there are exceptions.
 >
 > > I made the stop in all fricative-stop clusters voiced too, because I
 > > can't tell the difference in my own speech unless it's aspirated (so
 > > it's a matter of orthography, mostly).  I think at least some Celtic
 > > languages do this.
 >
 > English too, though the orthography hides it.  We consider the [t]
 > of /st-/ to be a variant of /t/ (normally [t_h]), but it would be
 > equally reasonable to reckon it a variant of /b/.
 >
Yeah, I was referring to the orthography - my whole reason for this
was that on analysis of my own speech, the [t] sounds more like /d/
than /t/.  Indeed, I'm not even sure that it's really a [t] rather
than a [d], as I can't pronounce any difference that I can
discriminate.