Re: !Socorro!

Steg Belsky wrote:

> Hi,
> i have a "rinco'n cultural" coming up in a few days for my AP Spanish
> class, and i don't have enough information.  I'm going to be talking
> about the various dialects of el idioma espanyol (my email can't handle
> the real n~).  I got myself into this mess by asking my teacher, who's
> from Buenos Aires, why she doesn't have a rioplatense accent - which i
> heard about right here on Conlanglist.
Does this means she didn't give you an answer?

> So, i'd appreciate it very very much if anyone here with knowledge of
> spanish dialects could email me with what you know, especially
> pronounciation differences.
> Or if you could direct me to a source on the Web, etc.
I posted in september 22 (Subject: Re  Inmidiateness, and Spanis Accents
thread) something about accents in Spanish.  A little summary would be:

The gratest division is between Spanish Spanish and American Spanish, but
most properly should be: Castilian Spanish and Every One Else, after
Andalucian is closed to many Caribean accents/dialects.

Between American Spanish, one can think in Caribean Dialects (Cuba, Puerto
Rico, Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Northern Colombia, Central America),
Andean Dialects (Suthern Colombia, Ecuador, Perz, Bolivia, Northern Chile),
Suthern Dialects (Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay) and Mexican.  There
are rough distinctions, because in each cathegory there are great
differences.

I guess I will post you privally on further details of that section I know.
As said, most differences are in the pronunciation of the consonants, the
prosody and the use of the addressing (tu', vos or usted).

-- Carlos Th