Re: 1. YAESR

Joe <joe@...> wrote:
> Tim May wrote:
>> That was what I was thinking.  I don't see any better solution
>> (although you clearly know more about Welsh than me).  You could cut
>> down on <ss>s a bit by writing 's and plural -s as <s> even when
>> they're phonetically [s]; e.g. <cats> rather than <catss>.  It's
>> underlyingly /z/ anyway, IIRC.
>
> Or possibly underlyingly /s/.  I can't imagine an [s] occuring after a
> voiced consonant.
But there *is* [s] after voiced consonants: e.g., |fence| (and vowels, |loss|).
Given that:

1)  [s] can appear after voiced sounds (fence, loss)
2)  morpheme |s| is /z/ after voiced sounds (fens, laws)
3) [z] can't normally appear after unvoiced sounds (heat-zone et al. maybe)
4) morpheme |s| is /s/ after unvoiced sounds

strongly suggests morpheme |s| to be /z/.

	*Muke!
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