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Re: Hiatus within words

From:Carlos Thompson <carlos_thompson@...>
Date:Tuesday, October 31, 2000, 1:15
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