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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/. -- "If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God!" - Ralph Waldo Emerson ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTailor