Re: OT: German reputation
| From: | Pablo Flores <pablodavidflores@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 15, 2004, 10:58 |
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On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 05:18:07 -0500, J. 'Mach' Wust
<j_mach_wust@...> wrote:
> In the phrase _Dios mío_, I can imagina that secondary or terciary effects
> of the stress pattern might de-stress the _o_ in _Dios_ (the main stress is
> on _mío_), so that the _i_ might seem more prominent than usually.
FWIW, I've never heard ['di.os] or [di'os] in my dialect. I can
only recall L2 speakers splitting diphthongs like that. Hiatus
such as this is very rarely found in Spanish, and certainly
not in "Dios".
--Pablo