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LATO Posted 16 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation

About "s"

In the sentence : My friend's DVD players are broken that's why she watches movies at her neighbor's" , how do you pronounce the sibilant "s" in the word "neighbor's?" Is it a "z"? or does it retain its "s" sound?

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It never had an / s / sound, so it is not a matter of retaining it or not. rz /.

— Mister Micawber

  • It never had an / s / sound, so it is not a matter of retaining it or not.
  • rz /.
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It never had an /s/ sound, so it is not a matter of retaining it or not. It is simply pronounced /z/: /'nei b?rz/.
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Mister MicawberIt never had an /s/ sound, so it is not a matter of retaining it or not. It is simply pronounced /z/: /'nei b?rz/.
I also pronounce the word "neighbor's" as /nei b?rz/. But a native speaker of American English (from the West Coast) pointed it out and said ,I quote, "We pronounce the /s/ at the end of a word as it is when t
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I can say that that's the long route to the answer, since the end of the sentence doesn't perceptibly change the sound, and it certainly doesn't change /s/ to /z/ or vice versa. The guy's nutz.
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Thank you Mister Micawber.

I'd like to hear what you think about this CJ and Kooyeen.
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LATOI'd like to hear what you think about this CJ and Kooyeen.
"We pronounce the /s/ at the end of a word as it is when that word ends a sentence, regardless of whether the preceding consonant is voiced or not".

Pure nonsense. Ignore it.

Being the last word in a sentence has no effect whatever on pronunciation.


CJ
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