[Ads-l] "Downsight"

[Barbara Need]

Except that I have been hearing news with [s] on NPR in recent months.

Barbara

Barbara Need
Etna, NY

On 29 Dec 2014, at 10:50 PM, Herb Stahlke wrote:

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> Tom,
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> Usually phonological alternations, like the American English dark
> (velarized) /l/ after vowels, what your system represents as "ool," I
> think, occur automatically.  It doesn't matter if they're in nouns  
> or verbs
> or a specific list of  words.  But the alternation we've been  
> discussing
> seems to occur only in the suffix -ese and nowhere else.  So, for  
> example,
> it doesn't occur in the plurals of vowel final nouns, like "toys."
>
> Herb
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> On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 7:11 AM, Tom Zurinskas  
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>> Dear Herb=2C
>> Please(~z) excuse(~z) me but I surmise(~z) that I don't know what
>> seams(~z)=
>> to be the meaning of morphological restrictions(~z) for ending ~s  
>> sound
>> be=
>> ing said as ~z.
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>> Tom Zurinskas=2C Conn 20 yrs=2C Tenn 3=2C NJ 33=2C now FL 12.See how
>> Englis=
>> h spelling links to sounds at http://justpaste.it/ayk
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>>> Date: Sun=2C 28 Dec 2014 23:05:56 -0500
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>>> So we have final fortition=2C looking like final devoicing.  Are  
>>> there
>>> examples of it happening with /v=2C D=2C Z/ or /b=2C d=2C g/?  The  
>>> only
>> e=
>> xamples
>>> I'm familiar with are /z/ --> /s/=2C and it appears to be  
>>> morphologically
>>> restricted as well.  I don't hear "fleece" for "fleas" or /kars/ for
>>> /ka:rz/.  Are there examples beyond the -ese suffix?
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>>> On Sat=2C Dec 27=2C 2014 at 11:06 PM=2C Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com 
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>>>> On Sat=2C Dec 27=2C 2014 at 10:40 PM=2C Herb Stahlke  
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>>>> wrote:
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>>>>> pronunciation of -ese words is a shortened vowel with a voiceless
>>>>> consonant=2C which makes the consonant sound like a fortis instead
>> of=
>> a
>>>> lenis.
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>>>> That's the pronunciation that I use. The consonant sounds like a  
>>>> fortis
>>>> because it *is* a fortis=2C in my idiolect=2C at least.
>>>>
>>>> I was in my 50's=2C before I finally flashed on the phonolonical
>> underp=
>> inning
>>>> of "heathen Chinee": a single member of the set=2C {heathen  
>>>> Chinee[z]}.
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