Re: Request for help, Spanish

I just wanted to listen to other answers first.

Nik Taylor escribi=F3:


> I'm currently working on Lun=EA (<Lun=E9s < Luna + -=E9s), the official
> language of the Pan-Human Republic.  It is descended from a
> Spanish-lexified creole, with substrate influence from English and
> Esperanto (a language spoken in a number of Lunar colonies), and
> probably other languages.  Now, the questions I have are these:
>
> What is the distribution of the allophones [a] and [A] in Spanish?  And
> do all dialects have those allophones?
As I've read (but I'm unable to hear or even know if I pronounce it that
way) is that [A] is realized in open syllabes, while [a] is realized in
closed syllabes (syllabes ending in consontant).

> What are the pronunciations of {ll} and {y} in different dialects?
> Particularly in Mexican dialects.
In my dialect both are pronounced [j\], a fricative version of [j].  I kn=
ow
is not a [j] (because _hierba_ is contrasted whit _yerba_), nor a [Z]
(beacuse Paisa _Medell=EDn_ [Z] is contrasted with Rolo _Medell=EDn_ [j\]=
), and
I'm almost certain I dont affricate, at least not in intervocalic positio=
ns.
I guess Mexicans have the same pronunciation, but after neither Esperanto
nor English have a voiced palatal fricative, I guess the sound can orbit
towards [j] (intervocalic) and [dZ] (begining of word).

> One sound change involves the loss of intervocalic voiced stops.  Now,
> in words like "ciudad", this would produce [sju'a] (I think, or is it
> [sju'A]?).  What should I do with those kinds of words?  Ordinarily,
> unstressed high vowels become glides when prevocalic, but *[sjwa] would
> be impossible.  Would it be reasonable for that to become a rounded
> glide, that is [s;ha]?  Or would it be reasonable for an epenthetic [w]
> to be added, creating [sju'wa]?  Or should I just leave it at [sju'a]?
> Or, might the [j] be vocalized, creating [si'wa]?
Proposed change: [sju'DaD] -> [sju'D_aa] -> [sju'a] -> [Su'a] -> [Swa]
(where [D_a] is an alveolar [D] or a non-sylibiant [z], already present i=
n
my dialect).

-- Carlos Th