Re: THEORY: Spanish was Re: THEORY: Storage Vs. Computation
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, June 20, 1999, 5:13 |
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Padraic Brown wrote:
> 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.).
That would tend to support my statement. In Christmas, both s's are
syllable-final (Christ.mas), while the first /s/, but not the second, in
"vosotros" is syllable-initial (vo.so.tros)
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