Re: Voiced Velar Fricative

On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 06:51:23PM -0400, Nik Taylor wrote:
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> And Rosta wrote:
> > Okay; but still an explanation is invited for why final /h/ triggers some
> > sort of ATR-like effect on vowels.
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> It's not just final /h/, it's any coda, e.g., [na'sjOn], [Ermano],
> [am&r], etc.
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> So, what happened with those s's is:
> [l&s.ka.s&s] -> [l&h.ka.s&h] -> [l&.ka.s&]
I've never noticed anything resembling [{] ([&]) in Spanish. Are we sure
it's not just [a] (low front, as opposed to back front [A])?

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