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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
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when is the letter 's' pronounced 'z' and the letter / g/ and /dg/ ?

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You can write a term paper as an answer to your question. There are many factors that play role: stress; environment (surrounded by what); how a community of native speakers pronounce a word in a certain way. look at s: at the start, medial, at the end at the end: it could be a inflection like plural, possessive (here you can google to find general patterns) at the start of a word: i have yet to encounter with /z/.

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  • You can write a term paper as an answer to your question.
  • There are many factors that play role: stress; environment (surrounded by what); how a community of native speakers pronounce a word in a certain way.
  • look at s: at the start, medial, at the end at the end: it could be a inflection like plural, possessive (here you can google to find general patterns) at the start of a word: i have yet to encounter with /z/.
  • So, it is usually /s/ medial s: assume, presume, dis+ease, dis#ease.
  • Taste these 4 words.
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You can write a term paper as an answer to your question. There are many factors that play role: stress; environment (surrounded by what); how a community of native speakers pronounce a word in a certain way.

look at s: at the start, medial, at the end

at the end: it could be a inflection like plural, possessive (here you can google to find general patterns)

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