Re[2]: [tied] Re: Bader's article on *-os(y)o

At 10:51:44 AM on Tuesday, May 18, 2004,
enlil@... wrote:

> Voicing of *-s does happen except that in the case of
> English, [z] has become a new morpheme, albeit it only has
> begun recently it seems unless somebody has something to
> add to it.

(I assume that 'morpheme' is a typo for 'phoneme'.)
According to Lass in the Cambridge History of the English
Language, /z/ and /s/ were distinct phonemes in foot-initial
position by 1250.

Brian