Thomas:  I got it!  Thanks for bringing in the academic/technical aspect of this conversation.  The practitioner positively benefits from a context to surround their wisdom.  I am learning a lot just being on this list.  Bonnita

"Thomas N. Robb" <trobb at cc.kyoto-su.ac.jp> wrote: What is happening with the /d/, compared with /t/, endings is technically called "devoicing".  The "voiced consonants" such as /b/, /d/, /g/ and /v/ tend not to be fully voiced at the end of words, so they end up sounding pretty much like their unvoiced counterparts /p/, /t/, /k/, and /f/.  We can't really say that they become the same, however, because if the following word begins with a vowel, then the full voicing is heard.  Compare: 

He jumped.

He jumped in.


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  Tom Robb, Japan

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