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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(rare, nonstandard, phonetics, linguistics) Voicing (“process by which a phoneme becomes voiced”)..
In spite of its preservation of intervocalic surd stops and of s, Wkh. follows the other Pamir languages in the voicening of the groups ft and xt.
Moreover, the claim of a voicening reflex of Altaic /-1 2-/ in Japanese would have to be defended against contrary evidence (e.g., hakani) and against Japanese word-internal voicening as a means of lexical diversification.
Northern dialects tend toward intervocalic voicening of s (e.g., bala-zı [childPOSS.3.SG] 'his/her child' instead of bala-sı [child-POSS.3.SG]), a feature typical of the South Siberian Turkic languages.
Sonorants do not normally precede voiceless obstruents within a morpheme due to the historical process of voicening (see 4.2.5).
Use voicening when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Voicening means (rare, nonstandard, phonetics, linguistics) Voicing (“process by which a phoneme becomes voiced”)..
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In spite of its preservation of intervocalic surd stops and of s, Wkh. follows the other Pamir languages in the voicening of the groups ft and xt.
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