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... unvoicing of voiced consonants §106 . There is in the Gaelic languages no general tendency towards the unvoicing of voiced consonants . In Irish it is normal for voiced consonants to be partially unvoiced in initial and final position ...
... unvoicing of voiced consonants §106 . There is in the Gaelic languages no general tendency towards the unvoicing of voiced consonants . In Irish it is normal for voiced consonants to be partially unvoiced in initial and final position ...
Page 246
... unvoicing of a medial consonant is improbable , it seems certain that Jonson's spellings represent a mechanical sub- stitution of t for StE th ; and if so , we can have no confidence that initial t for // represents a voiceless rather ...
... unvoicing of a medial consonant is improbable , it seems certain that Jonson's spellings represent a mechanical sub- stitution of t for StE th ; and if so , we can have no confidence that initial t for // represents a voiceless rather ...
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... unvoicing was regular , unchanged / z / would be unvoiced to / s / . The effect of such a development would be very easy to represent orthographically by the use of such spellings as pleace ' please ' , chooce ' choose ' etc. , and in ...
... unvoicing was regular , unchanged / z / would be unvoiced to / s / . The effect of such a development would be very easy to represent orthographically by the use of such spellings as pleace ' please ' , chooce ' choose ' etc. , and in ...
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THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND II | 11 |
DESCRIPTION OF THE TEXTS | 31 |
TEXTS | 76 |
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