Re: THEORY: Spanish was Re: THEORY: Storage Vs. Computation
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, June 21, 1999, 0:24 |
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Sylvia Sotomayor wrote:
> My Nicaraguan relatives pronounce final syllable /s/ as a dental fricat=
ive
> /th/. Syllable initial /s/ stays /s/.
Quite intriguing! Castilian has both /s/ and /T/, while in Latin
America they collapsed, I wonder if that distinction between [s] and [T]
is from that merger? Very interesting.
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