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