Re: OT: code-switching

Quoting "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>:

> On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 03:44:18AM -0500, David Barrow wrote:
> > Spanish 'a'  is not like  RP  'a'  in  father  which  is  [A:]
> >
> > I don't know enough about US accents to comment
> >
> > but have a look here for sound reference
> >
> > http://www.ling.hf.ntnu.no/ipa/full/ipachart_vowels.html
> >
> > [a]  first bottom  left,  [A]  second from  bottom right
>
> Well, that's interesting.  None of those sounds like a pure Spanish "a"
> to me; the [a] is too [&]-like and the [A] is too [O]-like.
That's no doubt while they're cardinal, whereas many (most?) languages use
something more centralish for their /a/'s. Spanish rank among them IME; where
great precision is required, one might transcribe what I'm hearing as [a_-].

                                                    Andreas

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