Meaning of voicening | Babel Free

Definitions

Voicing (“process by which a phoneme becomes voiced”).

nonstandard, rare, uncountable

Examples

“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).”

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