Re: possesives in -s

Nik Taylor wrote:

> Padraic Brown wrote:
> > Ah, I see. Or rather hear. I have an ess at the end when there's a
> > schwa.
>
> Interesting.  For me, it's still voiced, but not as strongly voiced with
> a schwa as with a full vowel.  Almost more like /zs/ than like /z/
Are you pronouncing it in isolation, or in an arbitrary intrasentential
context?  When I do the former, there is marked half-voicing on the
final <s>;  when I do the latter, there is full voicing, even when the following
segment is voiceless, as in <Ross's plays>.

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