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devoice's Usage Examples:

Next to voiceless consonants, liquids /r, rʲ, l, lʲ/ and the semivowel /j/ are devoiced in Moksha to [r̥ r̥ʲ l̥ l̥ʲ ȷ̊].

In West Quiche, the approximants l /l/, r /r/, y /j/, and w /w/ devoice and fricate to [ɬ], [r̥], [ç], and [ʍ] word-finally and often before voiceless.

devoiced ending (or regular) give – gave – given forgive – forgave – forgiven misgive – misgave – misgiven overgive – overgave – overgiven Strong, class 5 glide.

Speakers who devoice /v/ and /z/ may also hypercorrectively voice /f/ and.

that starts with a voiced or aspirated stop, that stop is allophonically devoiced.

overbend – overbent – overbent unbend – unbent – unbent Weak, class 1, with coalescence of dentals and devoiced ending beseech – beseeched/besought – beseeched/besought.

[fʊɫ], GA light [ɫaɪt] All sonorants (liquids /l, r/ and nasals /m, n, ŋ/) devoice when following a voiceless obstruent, and they are syllabic when following.

(The regular ending -ed is also devoiced after voiceless consonants in regular verbs, as described under , but this is not now shown in the spelling – for example, the -ed in blessed and whipped is pronounced as a t, and these words were formerly written blest and whipt.

Dutch (such as the Amsterdam accent) also /z/ can devoice and merge with /s/.

In the north, /ɣ/ often devoices and merges with /x/; the quality of that merged sound has been variously.

Final stops may devoice and pre-nasal /æ/ may not raise.

relearned/relearnt – relearned/relearnt unlearn – unlearned/unlearnt – unlearned/unlearnt Weak, class 2, with devoiced ending (or regular) leave – left.

can also be voiceless (sounds like [h] followed by [j]) /h/: "A vowel devoices if the vowel and a following [h] are in an odd-numbered syllable.

Synonyms:

sound out, enunciate, pronounce, say, enounce, articulate,

Antonyms:

unarticulated, written, inarticulate, uncommunicative, voice,