Re: possesives in -s

On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, Thomas R. Wier wrote:

>Nik Taylor wrote:
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>> 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>.
Nope. Even buried like this, it's still [s] for me. Whether the
next segment be voiced or voiceless: /rOs@s ple:z/ /rOs@s bOs@s
ple:z/. The only thing I'm not entirely satisfied with is the
vowel of the genitive marker. It's kind of like [i], but shorter
and swallowed a bit.

Padraic.

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