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From:Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...>
Date:Friday, September 24, 1999, 11:50
dnsulani@internet-zahav.net writes:
>(So Barry, how do you pronounce it? ) >In "Garcia", I pronounced it with the stress on -ci-. The unstressed >nature >of the first syllable tells them not to put an alef in. Writing it as >gimel - alef - reish would mean that it was pronounced with the stress >on the first syllable and/or the first syllable's /a/ was [a:] >(lengthened.).
Actually i'm not quite sure of the vowel sounds when I pronounce it. I haven't been able to find someting on the IPA chart that really explains the terms they give (which explains why i never comment when other peoples phonologies are posted here on the list! =) ). I can give a comparison to other words, if it helps. In my west coast american accent, my first name rhymes with: berry, airy, scary, very. Stress is on the first syllable. My last name is close to the Spanish, but the final 'a' is said with a schwa. Stress is on -ci-.