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Re: English l and Spanish ll

From:Roger Mills <rfmilly@...>
Date:Tuesday, November 9, 2004, 5:57
Adam Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious wrote:
> Is the English l represented as SAMPA IPA /l`/ or /l/ (since I've noticed > the > difference between most language's l's and English's l's)
Tristan has answered this.
> Also, is the Spanish ll (in the accents where it sounds similar to /dZ/) > /z*/ > or /L/? >
Tristan again: "In at least some it actually is [dZ)]." Yes. It is more often [Z] (like "j" in French), or even voiceless [S] according to some. "I'm not sure what you mean by '/z*/', the star isn't a Sampa, X-Sampa or CXS modifier character."