Re: R: Re: Phonology and Questions

Luca wrote:

>> All native and non-native speakers I've had contact with
>> agree that they seem to appear predictably between unvoiced
>> consonants, or in final position after an unvoiced consonant.
>>
>Do they become voiceless even if they're stressed?
The standard treatment say devoicing only applies to /i/ and /u/, but I've
heard it used with /a/ as well.  They devoice when they are not next to a
voiced sound.  They do not devoice if they are word initial or accented.  Some
dialects delete the vowels rather than devoice them.

Marcus