Now, the question is, did they continue to devoice word-final obstruents?. From Wordnik.com. [The PIE and Pre-PIE pronominal system from the perspective of a wave model] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Women in Groups: Question] Reference
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 devoice in Greek. From Wordnik.com. [Rhaetic inscriptions Schum PU 1 and Schum CE 1] Reference
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 devoice the sounds again. From Wordnik.com. [Ejective or Pharyngealized Stops in Proto-Semitic?] Reference
As they expanded, they began, for inscrutable Frankish reasons, to devoice word-final obstruents this is the blue isogloss, thereby establishing Frankish as its own distinct, highly conservative dialect. From Wordnik.com. [The PIE and Pre-PIE pronominal system from the perspective of a wave model] Reference
It can now sense a connected devoice with a dead battery and provide a trickle charge to enable the device to come back to life and establish a connection. From Wordnik.com. [EE Times-Asia] Reference
Ich recycle du recyclest er/sie recycles wir recycle ihr recycle sie recycle using an -ed past form though seems pointless since the vast majority of Germans will always devoice the final anyway. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: DOWNGELOADET?] Reference
"I dare say he is all that" said Mr. Earlsdown "dependable indeed! why ten to one when you have been married to him a month he will devoice you for some other girl he is silly enough to prefer; no no you shall marry. From Wordnik.com. [Daisy Ashford: Her Book] Reference
You'd think that the voiced stop would devoice. From Wordnik.com. [Winter's Law in Balto-Slavic, "Hybrid Theory" and phonation - Part 1] Reference
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