Re: Voiced Velar Fricative
From: | Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...> |
Date: | Tuesday, October 24, 2000, 0:56 |
CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>Barry is not a native speaker of Spanish, and I don't know how well he
>speaks or if he handles all those subtle allophones.
>
>But yes. Spanish /g/ could be realized as [G] (SAMPA, in Kirch is
>[Q], gamma in IPA), and is perfectly posible besides an /i/, like
>Colombian goalkeeper "René Higuita" /igita/ that is pronounced as
>[iGita].
According to the facilitators at school as well as my classmates, my
pronunciation is pretty good, but i dont know if I truly pronounce all
those "subtle allophones" or not. Analyzing my speech, i say /igita/ with
/g/ not /G/, but i suppose in conversation I MAY say it as /G/
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