On Welsh voicing

[Joseph F. Eska]

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I don't have the time at the moment to enter the discussion fully,
but one thing to bear in mind is that the phonetic realisation of
phonemes is not identical across languages.  In Welsh, broadly
speaking, phonemic /p b/, for example, are [p^h p] phonetically, i.e.,
the contrast is one of phonetic aspiration, rather than voicing.
There is no process of intervocalic devoicing in Welsh, but there is
one of intervocalic de-aspiration for voiceless stops, which, in many
dialects, is accompanied by partial voicing.
 
Joe Eska
eska at vtaix.cc.vt.edu