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Mosja Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

Connective speech with voiced "s"

I read this sentence "He was so sad last Sunday" and I feel like the voiced "s" sound from the word "was" is connected with "so" and it becomes something like this:

"He wazo sad last Sunday"

is it ok?


Ps. Pls correct my grammar mistakes on this topic.

  

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mosja "He wazo sad last Sunday" It's more like 'He wasso sad' in my dialect of BrE.

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mosja"He wazo sad last Sunday"

It's more like 'He wasso sad' in my dialect of BrE.

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mosja"He wazo sad last Sunday"

Unless one uses IPA symbols, any attempt to produce "phonetic" versions of anything is doomed to failure.

Given that some members are not familiar with IPA symbols, I'll do the best I can. The vowel of 'was' is very close to the sound of unstressed 'the' before a consonant. The final consonant of this word is normally

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mosjabecomes something like this: "He wazo sad last Sunday"

For me (AmE) the /zs/ combination becomes devoiced midstream.

In IPA it might be represented as /zz?s/, where /z?/ is 'voiceless z'.

It's found in 'was so', 'his song', 'is sad', and many others. If anything, the general effect is more like 's' than like 'z' because the /z/ starts to d

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