final obstruent devoicing

English

Noun

final obstruent devoicing (usually uncountable, plural final obstruent devoicings)

1. (linguistics) The feature of a language of only allowing voiceless consonants before a pausa.

Translations

language feature

• Dutch: eindklankverscherping f
• Finnish: sananloppuisten obstruenttien soinnitontuminen, sananloppuisten obstruenttien soinnillisuuden menetys
• French: dévoisement final m
• German: Auslautverhärtung (de) f
• Polish: ubezdźwięcznienie końcowych obstruentów n
• Swedish: slutljudsskärpning (sv) c, utljudsskärpning (sv) c

Further reading

• final-obstruent devoicing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia