Definitions
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
devoice .
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Examples
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Now I would guess that people who get married earlier are some what more likely to get devoiced but the observations not so simple and delta not nearly as large as it seems to be at first glance.
Tyler Cowen on Income Inequality, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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As it turned out, I couldn't stand its mournful cries at night, and so, though I hated to do it, I had it devoiced.
The Pet Rosenfeld 2010
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In contrast, a root that shows a devoiced stop but which confuses the allophone with the homophonous phoneme should instead properly pair with another unvoiced stop.
PIE "look-alike stems" - Evidence of something or a red herring? 2009
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Voice is irrelevant here although you're correct that Etruscans devoiced foreign voiced stops.
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The theoretical deletion of intervening schwa between two dental stops, I reasoned, might likely have left traces of friction stemming from a devoiced vowel, lost by the latemost Proto-IE stage.
Japanese dialect mirrors suspected PIE development of sibilantization between two dental stops 2009
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The theoretical deletion of intervening schwa between two dental stops, I reasoned, might likely have left traces of friction stemming from a devoiced vowel, lost by the latemost Proto-IE stage.
Archive 2009-11-01 2009
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In a devoiced environment, [s]-like friction is produced because [s] is nothing more than dental friction by definition.
Japanese dialect mirrors suspected PIE development of sibilantization between two dental stops 2009
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Tropylium: "For *-s, there's however the possibility that *z is the original form here and *so is simply also devoiced."
Precising on a new rule to explain Pre-IE word-final voicing 2008
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For *-s, there's however the possibility that *z is the original form here and *so is simply also devoiced.
Precising on a new rule to explain Pre-IE word-final voicing 2008
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In German the choice was for [ʒ] to be devoiced into [ʃ] in Moschee.
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