Re: /s/ -> /h/ [was: Re: Betreft: Re: k(w)->p]
From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
Date: | Saturday, January 29, 2000, 3:34 |
dirk elzinga wrote:
> Yes. I should have been more precise. As Rob pointed out, /h/ in
> Dutch and German is voiced, and in English intervocalically.
I've heard that claim, but it must be only for some dialects - there is
most definitely no voicing in my intervocalic /h/, no matter how slow or
fast I say words like "ahoy", I can feel no voicing in the /h/.
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