Re: "Transferral" verb form in LC-01

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/.

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I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen,    http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith.  --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_

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