Re: Hiatus within words

Roger Mils wabbe:

>     True, as in "continúo" /kontinúo/ 'I continue' vs. "continuo"
> /kontínwo/ 'continuous';  or "país" /país/ 'country' vs. the 2d pl.
> ending "-áis" /-ays/.  etc. Hard to say what, if anything, occurs
> between the [a] and [i] of "país".  I'm not sure how Spanish
> deals with "...aa..." as in the names Saavedra, or Sahagún.
Well, I know for sure there is no glotal stop nor any glide, nor
lengthening, and I also know that there is a differerence when
speaking slarvishly /sabed4a/ vs speaking carfully /saabed4a/.  The
way I analize my own speech is that double vowels have a tonal
difference, or probably a small difference in quality [aA].

The same applies for "...ee...", "...ii..." and "...oo...", in words
like "veeduría", "reencuentro", "tiito", "cooperación".

-- Carlos Th