voicening

English

Etymology

Alteration of voicing, probably by analogy to lengthening.

Noun

voicening (uncountable)

1. (rare, nonstandard, phonetics, linguistics) Voicing (“process by which a phoneme becomes voiced”).
   • 1929, Georg Morgenstierne, Indo-Iranian Frontier Languages, volume 2, page 465:

     In spite of its preservation of intervocalic surd stops and of s, Wkh. follows the other Pamir languages in the voicening of the groups ft and xt.

   • 1981, Monumenta Nipponica: Studies on Japanese Culture, Past and Present:

     Moreover, the claim of a voicening reflex of Altaic /-1 2-/ in Japanese would have to be defended against contrary evidence (e.g., hakani) and against Japanese word-internal voicening as a means of lexical diversification.

   • 2010, Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World, page 612:

     Northern dialects tend toward intervocalic voicening of s (e.g., bala-zı [childPOSS.3.SG] 'his/her child' instead of bala-sı [child-POSS.3.SG]), a feature typical of the South Siberian Turkic languages.

   • 2011, Irina Nikolaeva, A Historical Dictionary of Yukaghir, page 35:

     Sonorants do not normally precede voiceless obstruents within a morpheme due to the historical process of voicening (see 4.2.5).