Re: Voiced Velar Fricative
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, November 9, 2000, 0:58 |
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Eric Christopherson wrote:
> I've never noticed anything resembling [{] ([&]) in Spanish. Are we sure
> it's not just [a] (low front, as opposed to back front [A])?
Well, according to the article on Spanish in The World's Major
Languages, "in closed syllables ... /a/, which in citation has a central
low articulation, may be displaced forward or backward depending on the
adjacent consonant: ... _jaulas_ 'cages' /'xaulas/ ['XAwla+s]" (+ is the
diacritic +, which represents "advanced")
It also says that in "Andalusian and some Latin American varieties" "Now
[la maDre] contrasts functionally with [l& maDrE], and we are obliged to
recognize a new system of plural marking - not too different from the
vocalic alternations of Italian - and with it three new vowel phonemes."
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