How To Use devoice In A Sentence
- In contrast, a root that shows a devoiced stop but which confuses the allophone with the homophonous phoneme should instead properly pair with another unvoiced stop. PIE "look-alike stems" - Evidence of something or a red herring?
- One is to devoice *dʰ entirely to *tʰ (as in Greek); another is to somehow fill in the absent voiceless aspirate *tʰ (as in Sanskrit). Winter's Law in Balto-Slavic, "Hybrid Theory" and phonation - Part 2
- Voice is irrelevant here although you're correct that Etruscans devoiced foreign voiced stops. A Pre-Greek name for Odysseus
- I haven't looked up his roots, but I would suspect that if a voiced aspirated stop devoices after *s then Indo-Iranian and possibly Greek should retain the feature of aspiration. PIE "look-alike stems" - Evidence of something or a red herring?
- Theoretically, the stemfinal *bʰ would devoice to *p in original *skerbʰ- once speakers of Indo-European no longer were consciously aware of the historical connection with *gʰrebʰ-, and this would especially occur after *s- came to be irregularly omitted and phonotactic "stop voicing harmony" pressures took over. PIE "look-alike stems" - *(s)kerp- vs. *gʰrebʰ-
- It can now sense a connected devoice with a dead battery and provide a trickle charge to enable the device to come back to life and establish a connection. EE Times-Asia
- Some googling turn'd up a paper arguing for aspirate devoicing postdating Grassman's law, on the basis of roots where G.L. doesn't produce alternation and which do not devoice in Greek. Rhaetic inscriptions Schum PU 1 and Schum CE 1
- Now, the question is, did they continue to devoice word-final obstruents? The PIE and Pre-PIE pronominal system from the perspective of a wave model
- There's another possible problem with this version of the hypothesis, namely why the loss of creakiness common in IE affects no Semitic language, and most of them rather devoice the sounds again. Ejective or Pharyngealized Stops in Proto-Semitic?
- Maybe I should add for completeness, that if Grassman's Law surfaced already during this hypothetical common "phonation shift" between Proto-Hellenic and Proto-Indo-Iranian, then forms like Greek títhēmi would have to be explained as resulting from analogical pressures that forced *d to devoice along with *dʰ in the underlying post-Grassman's-Law form, *dídʰehmi. Winter's Law in Balto-Slavic, "Hybrid Theory" and phonation - Part 2
