w9 - Seminar work (OPT)
Completion requirements
This week you can look at your treatment of voicing assimilation (= changes between fortis and lenis categories). In English, you shouldn’t assimilate voicing, especially from fortis to lenis.
1) Find words that begin with a lenis sound. Do you incorrectly assimilate voicing? E.g., do you say /naɪz bɔɪ/ instead of /naɪs bɔɪ/?
2) Look at some polymorphemic words like past tenses, 3rd person verbs, the plural. Do you pronounce the lenis variants (/z/ /d/) after non-fortis sounds? Or do you incorrectly assimilate it to fortis? (E.g., you say /bɔɪs/ insted of /bɔɪz/)