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Among other things, it's not uncommon to hear a German native speaker devoicing at least some final consonants while speaking English.
Voicing rates, zero-crossing rates and the alignment of voiced consonants as unvoiced should allow this devoicing to be measured.
The study should be continued for this region and enriched by consonant devoicing cues.
Moreover, Turner shows that fronting of aspiration preceded the devoicing of voiced aspirates in European Romani.
James mentions that devoicing appears to be a feature of many Cumbric place names.
Note that according to this hypothesis both voiced consonants of this root underwent devoicing in Akkadian.
Other changes include a general tendency towards terminal devoicing in German and Dutch, and to a far more limited extent in English.
Two of the most common errors present in early speech include word-final devoicing and final consonant deletion.
For details, see Voicing and devoicing in the article on Polish phonology.
One feature that does distinguish Low German from English generally is final devoicing of obstruents, as exemplified by the words 'good' and 'wind' below.
Such dialects, along with Manx and Irish, also retain the Classical Gaelic values of the stops, while most dialects underwent devoicing and preaspiration.
Devoicing of word final consonants is a feature of modern Breton and, to an extent, Cornish.
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