Re: Digest

En réponse à David Peterson <DigitalScream@...>:

> <<[O] in closed syllables, [o] in open.  At least in some dialects, I
> don't know if it's true in *all* dialects.>>
>
>        This is not true for the Mexican Spanish I'm familiar with:
> "pelota"
> [pe.'lo.tA]; "tengo" [teN.go]; "otra vez" ['o.t4A Bes].  However, it may
> go
> to [O] in front of [r].
I don't know if you realize it, but your examples go against what you're trying
to prove. All the examples you give are examples of open syllables (the dot
shows it well) with closed [o] in, thus infirming your claim: "this is not true
for the Mexican Spanish...". To really prove that the claim "[O] in closed
syllables, [o] in open" is wrong, you have to come up with an example of [O] in
an open syllable, or [o] in a closed one.

Christophe.

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