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v. - Utter with tense vocal chords.

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  • Now, the question is, did they continue to devoice word-final obstruents?
  • They might go devoice hoping to find a better partner, but since they think it's all others' fault, they will repeat the same error over and over.
  • Some googling turn'd up a paper arguing for aspirate devoicing postdating Grassman's law, on the basis of roots where G.L. doesn't produce alternation and which do not...
  • There's another possible problem with this version of the hypothesis, namely why the loss of creakiness common in IE affects no Semitic language, and most of them rather...
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