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From: phoogenb@liberty.uc.wlu.edu (Peter Hoogenboom)
Subject: Re: The English "R" for Germans
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal (mcv@pi.net) wrote:
: Real story: Dutch <v> is not really a voiced sound, but a "weak"
: [lenis] /f/.  It can be voiced in some contexts, but mostly it's not.
: In this respect it's quite like English /b/ /d/ /g/ /z/ and /Z/ which
: are also unvoiced initially and finally.  The funny thing is that in

This is the oddest thing I've ever heard.  I am well familiar with the 
idea that German (and Dutch?) make final consonants voiceless.  At least 
one Dutch speaker has told me that the weird thing about English (for 
him) is that it DOESN'T de-voice final consonants.

Peter

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