Re: CHAT: I need help with the concept "New World Spanish"

Roger Mills scripsit:

> I'm not sure you have a case, but the real Spanish speakers will have to
> weigh in.
> To my view, NWS is characterized by:
You don't speak to differences in lexis.

> 3. greater tendency to aspirate final and pre-cons. /s/ (though rarely to
> lose it, as is said to be happening in Andalucia, with changes in the
> quality of the preceding vowel).  But this may be a casual/fast-speech rule
> throughout the Hisp. world.
I think it is not the case in Mexico, though.

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