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Re: possesives in -s

From:Padraic Brown <pbrown@...>
Date:Saturday, August 12, 2000, 22:48
On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, Thomas R. Wier wrote:

>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>.
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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