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Re: 1. YAESR

From:Muke Tever <hotblack@...>
Date:Wednesday, April 20, 2005, 1:46
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! -- website: http://frath.net/ LiveJournal: http://kohath.livejournal.com/ deviantArt: http://kohath.deviantart.com/ FrathWiki, a conlang and conculture wiki: http://wiki.frath.net/

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