Re: THEORY: Spanish was Re: THEORY: Storage Vs. Computation

FFlores wrote:
> Castilla, Spain, is probably one of the places from where
> most of the Conquistadores came, but I don't know.
That's basically it.  The dialect that became Modern Spanish was
originally a minor dialect, spoken in the region of Castille, but they
led the Reconquista, and their royal line became the royal line of
united Spain.

Later, Barry Garcia wrote:

> I think of all the accents in spain, the southern spanish accents the
> funniest (they often sound like they drop the "s" at the ends of words,
> and it almost becomes a sort of aspirated sound. For instance, Vosotros
> would sound sort of like "vosotroh", paises would sound like "paiseh".
In some dialects (somewhere in Southern Spain, but I forget where
exactly), that /h/ has also been dropped, so that the allophonic
variation between [O] and [o], and between [E] and [e] ([O] and [E] in
closed syllables, [o]/[e] in open) becomes phonemic, for instance:

For la madre/las madres
Standard: [lA mA.Dre], [las mA.DrEs]
Sevillian: [lA mA.Dre], [lah mA.DrEh]
  Still allophonic
Some dialects: [lA mA.Dre], [la mA.DrE]
I think I transcribed the a's correctly.
Creating three new phonemes, /E/, /O/, and /a/, and also a new
pluralization paradigm.

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