Re: OT: code-switching

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.

-Mark

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