Re: final obstruent devoicing
| From: | Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 25, 2002, 21:04 |
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Talpas Tim wrote:
>#
># Could anone provide me with info on which languages (primarily natlangs
>;-)
># have final obstruent devoicing, beside German and Russian, that is?
>
>So, within a european context, I think it's easier to talk about
>which *don't* have final obstruent devoicing.
>
>English, Ukrainian, Romanian, and Hungarian. (There may be more, i'm not
>100% sure)
Theoretically voiced final obstruents in Swedish may in practice often be
voiceless, but there's, unlike in eg German, no collapse of distinctions -
final /g/ is distinct from final /k/ for instance (indeed, merging them
sounds very German to me). Same for the other Nordic langs.
Surely French has final voiced obstuents in words like _grande_?
Andreas
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