Con-Romance &/a (was: laterals (was: Pharingials,/l/ vs. /r/ in Southeast Asia)

Roger Mills wrote:

>Yitzik wrote:
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>>John Cowan eskribiw:
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>><<Well, in some dialects of Spanish [&] is the allophone of /a/ used
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>>closed syllables, [a] in open ones.  This can become a phonemic
>>distinction
>>where syllable-final /s/ drops:  la casa /lakasa/ vs. las casas
>>/l&kas&/.
>>And this happens precisely in Andalusia.>>
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>And as I understand it, -s loss also creates open varieties of /e, o/ > [E,
>O].  It stems of course from the common  change of -s > -h (> 0).  I
>wonder-- does the Andalusian change only affect -s# {plural}? It seems to be
>a relatively recent (within the past 50 years?) development, AFAIK.  What
>about -sC- within a word--- "basta" for ex.??
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I don't know about Andalusian, but it does happen in some accents as
this humorous take on Spanish spelling reform shows

http://www.dim.uchile.cl/~mtapia/castellano.htm

Even with the s dropping  VsC is not the same as VC

David Barrow