Re: OT: code-switching

Mark J. Reed wrote:

>On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 09:38:26PM -0500, David Barrow wrote:
>
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>>Mark J. Reed wrote:
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>>>I suspect that if you, say, went to Spain,
>>>you would find that when they talk about Canada they don't say ['k&n@d@],
>>>but rather [kanada].
>>>
>>>
>>[kana'da] more like
>>
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>Well, if you're going to get nit-picky, it'd actually be [kana'Da]. :)
>
I was just clarifying stress like in the English version , but point
taken  :-)

>
>Although I still don't get why it's [a] and not [A].  I thought the
>Spanish "a" = Latin long "a" = "a" in English "father" = [A], while
>[a] was the "o" in the native pronunciation of "Boston", or of
>"pop" in Chicago.
>
>-Mark
>
>
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

David

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