Re: Q about /c/

"Trebor Jung" <treborjung@...> wrote:

> Is the phoneme /c/ (palatal stop) that 'hard /j/-sound' that I've heard
> is found in Latin American (Castilian?) Spanish, spelled as <ll>?
No. Latin American Spanish has /j/ or something in the vicinity
of /Z/ (postalveolar fricative) and /j\/ (palatal fricative),
sometimes unvoiced /S/ ~ /C/.

In my dialect it's more like /C/ (IPA /ç/), the unvoiced palatal
fricative, but with the tip and middle part of the tongue are
a bit fronted, almost as if I were coarticulating /s/. I get the
very same sound for the sound written <y>.

When you say "Castilian" it's usually understood as the dialect
of Spanish spoken in Castile (Castilla), Spain, even though in
Latin America _castellano_ means "Spanish" in general. See
< http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_language >.


--Pablo Flores
  http://www.angelfire.com/ego/pdf/sp/index.html