Re: THEORY: Spanish was Re: THEORY: Storage Vs. Computation
| From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, June 20, 1999, 5:08 |
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On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, Nik Taylor wrote:
> Padraic Brown wrote:
> > But it can't quite top what I've heard
> > of Porto Rican. I've had PR teachers and classmates, and they tend to l=
ose
> > almost every "s" going: los castellanos =3D loh cahtellanoh
>=20
> I think the tendency there (and other parts of the Caribbean) is to lose
> syllable-final s's, I don't think they say /hoj/ for "soy", for
> instance. If they do, that would be really interesting.
You're right...I ought to have qualified by _excepting_ esses around
vowels. Soy is still soy, vosotros is vosotroh. The other medial esses
(those next to a consonant) do seem to be lost, though (crihmeh, etc.).
Padraic.