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

At 11:55 PM 6/19/99 -0500, you 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 lose
>> almost every "s" going: los castellanos = loh cahtellanoh
>
>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.
>
My Nicaraguan relatives pronounce final syllable /s/ as a dental fricative
/th/. Syllable initial /s/ stays /s/.

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