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===Voicing and Devoicing of Consonant Clusters===
===Voicing and Devoicing of Consonant Clusters===
====Voicing of Word-Final /s/ after a Voiced Consonant====
Word-final /s/ was voiced after /b/, /d/, and /g/. (And thus I dispense with the mystery of what the phonetic and phonemic value of the /g/ of Gothic ''dags'' might have been!)
{|
|-
| &nbsp;||valign="top"| '''s''' → '''z'''||valign="top"| /||valign="top" align="right"| '''C'''<br />[+vox]<br />[-cnt]||valign="top"| ___#
|}
''“'''S''' becomes voiced after a voiced stop when word-final.”''
In more direct terms:
{|
|-
| &nbsp;||valign="top"| '''s''' → '''z'''||valign="top"| /||valign="top" align="right"| b,d,g}___#
|}
===Change of /fl/ to /θl/===
===Change of /fl/ to /θl/===
===Changes to Geminate Consonants===
===Changes to Geminate Consonants===