Re: possesives in -s

J Matthew Pearson wrote:

> "Thomas R. Wier" wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
> > Is there even a dialect of English that does not do that?  I can't think
> > of one.  If I heard it, I might at first assume they're German or something.
> > Final devoicing's pretty rare in English.
>
> In East Los Angeles English plural/possessive /s/ is pronounced [s] after vowels
> rather than [z].  This is presumably due to influence from Spanish (speakers of
> this variety are generally bilingual).
Is this codeswitching perhaps?  With that, you get a lot of phonological effects
from the substrate.

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