Re: possesives in -s

On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Nik Taylor wrote:

>Padraic Brown wrote:
>> What's wrong with /rOs@s/?
>
>In my dialect, plural and possessive is only /s/ when adjacent to a
>voiceless consonant, like "cats", when adjacent to a vowel (including
>schwa) or a voiced consonant, it's /z/.  /rOs@s/ I would interpret as
>something like Rossus.
Ah, I see. Or rather hear. I have an ess at the end when there's a
schwa. If it's a real vowel (like Bonzo's), then I have a zed:
/bOnzoz/. I think perhaps it's because the schwa gets swallowed up
to the point where it almost disappears.

Padraic.

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