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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/ _____________________________________________________ L A S T R E L L A G R A N D Lem alo smu tue rnm edo lon lnt aòa nuñ òog ua as!