Re: another silly phonology question

On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 02:10:25AM -0500, Roger Mills wrote:
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> Eric Christopherson wrote:
> +AD4-Er, yes. They do belong to different phonemes, so that was the wrong
> +AD4-terminology. /T/ becomes voiced before voiced consonants, but it varies
> from
> +AD4-speaker to speaker, as does the voicing of /s/ (and did you know there's at
> +AD4-least one Spanish word with +AFs-v+AF0-? It's +ADw-afgano/a+AD4-,
> +ACI-Afghan+ACI-, pronounced
> +AD4AWw-av+ACI-Gano+AF0-. Presumably the country is +ADw-Afganista'n+AD4- but I'm too lazy to look
> +AD4-it up :) )+AD4-
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> Aside from phrasal conjunction of final -z with a voiced sound, I can only
> think of one such word-internal example-- muzgo or amuzgo-- not sure which,
> and can't find my dictionary.  Don't think I've ever actually heard it
> pronounced....
-azgo is a somewhat common suffix somewhat similar to -ness/-hood in
English.

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Eric Christopherson / *Aiworegs Ghristobhorosyo