Re: tongue twisters

Mark J. Reed wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 11:04:38AM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote:
>
>>I was speaking Spanish this morning and wished to express the meaning of
>>the English saying "The grass is always greener . . .".  So I said
>>"La hierba es siempre mas verde . . .".
>
> BTW, that should be |más|.
>
>>I meant to say [la 'jE4.ba Es 'sjEm.pre mas 'bE4.de]
>
> Or something like that.  For some reason, |r|s confuse me; is a voiced
> stop after them fricativized or not?  That is, should it be
> ['jE4.ba]/['bE4.de] or ['jE4.Ba]/['bE4.De]?
Don't have my grammar with me at work, but I believe it's only between
vowels, so it'd be ['jE4.ba]/['bE4.de]. Or wait: isn't <v>/<b> always
[B], or am I raving?

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