Re: possesives in -s

"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).

Matt.