It IS the opposite - cf Spanish, English (American 'water'), Welsh....
Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote: Quoting Carsten Becker :
> Hello,
>
> Some time ago, I saw someone here mentioning that it's more
> likely for a voiced stop to devoice than for a unvoiced stop
> to voice.
Really? I would have thought exactly the opposite ...
Andreas
> I know that in the realms of sound changes,
> basically everything is possible, but I wanted to ask if
> there are more rules like that? I already know that stops
> tend to be come affricates tend to become fricatives etc.
> and that this mechanism also works the other way round.
>
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