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Say, the situation is intervocalic., for example:

[ata] > [aða]

The differences of the two sounds are whether the tongue touches the palate and voicing.

So if I assume devoicingvoicing happens first, the problem becomes thus that in some languages do voiced plosives not exist, so it is implausible to suppose this step happens first. If I assume the other one happens first, it's also implausible since it would ben aan unvoiced [ð̥].

So how would such a sound change exactly happen? Can they take place the same time?

Say, the situation is intervocalic.

The differences of the two sounds are whether the tongue touches the palate and voicing.

So if I assume devoicing happens first, the problem becomes thus that in some languages do voiced plosives not exist, so it is implausible to suppose this step happens first. If I assume the other one happens first, it's also implausible since it would ben a [ð̥].

So how would such a sound change exactly happen? Can they take place the same time?

Say, the situation is intervocalic, for example:

[ata] > [aða]

The differences of the two sounds are whether the tongue touches the palate and voicing.

So if I assume voicing happens first, the problem becomes thus that in some languages do voiced plosives not exist, so it is implausible to suppose this step happens first. If I assume the other one happens first, it's also implausible since it would ben an unvoiced [ð̥].

So how would such a sound change exactly happen? Can they take place the same time?

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In the sound change [t] to [ð], what steps would normally take place in which order?

Say, the situation is intervocalic.

The differences of the two sounds are whether the tongue touches the palate and voicing.

So if I assume devoicing happens first, the problem becomes thus that in some languages do voiced plosives not exist, so it is implausible to suppose this step happens first. If I assume the other one happens first, it's also implausible since it would ben a [ð̥].

So how would such a sound change exactly happen? Can they take place the same time?