{"id":846,"date":"2011-08-13T15:22:07","date_gmt":"2011-08-13T14:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=846"},"modified":"2011-10-05T21:28:51","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T20:28:51","slug":"final-obstruent-devoicing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=846","title":{"rendered":":Final obstruent devoicing:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A phonological constraint which is found in a number of the world&#8217;s languages.  <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=572\">Obstruents<\/a> must be <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=527\">voiceless<\/a> (1) immediately preceding a voiceless sound (2) finally in some domain, usually the word.  Details differ somewhat from language to language.  <\/p>\n<p>Some of the languages displaying the constraint are: Dutch, German, Maltese, Polish, Russian, Tok Pisin. The voiceless nature of the obstruents involved is often not reflected in the orthography of the language.  For instance, German <em>bunt <\/em>and <em>Bund <\/em>are both pronounced <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>b\u028ant<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Also called <strong>Auslautverh\u00e4rtung<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A phonological constraint which is found in a number of the world&#8217;s languages. Obstruents must be voiceless (1) immediately preceding a voiceless sound (2) finally in some domain, usually the word. Details differ somewhat from language to language. Some of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=846\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":174,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/846"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3716,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/846\/revisions\/3716"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}