devoicing in English
verb
1
make (a vowel or voiced consonant) voiceless.
Final voiced consonants tend to be devoiced : ‘dok’ for dog, ‘piecess’ for pieces.
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1. Also, Catalan has final obstruent devoicing, thus featuring many couplets like amic ('male friend') vs. amiga ('female friend').
2. This process, which has a universal basis in laryngeal function (Ohala 1978), starts out as a low-level phonetic process, resulting in high and low Allotones conditioned by initial voicing: the distinction becomes phonemic after devoicing takes place or after the parallelism in tonal contours between high and low allophones is disrupted by