Re: OT: German reputation

On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 11:04:43AM -0500, J. 'Mach' Wust wrote:
> Have a look at at the diccionary of the Real Academia Española:
> http://buscon.rae.es/diccionario/drae.htm . You might be mixing it up with
> Italian, which indeed stressed the word /'di.o/ on the first syllable, and
> where this word is pronounced trisyllabic: [a'd:i:.(j)o].
Hm.  I could swear my Cuban Spanish teacher said /,di.os'mi'o/, not
/djos'mi.o/.

> There's not much difference between a [j] and a [i], especially not before
> vowels, so the question whether it's considered a syllable on its own is
> rather based on non-phonetic arguments.
Well, there is not much difference between [i'o] and [jo], but there is
a big difference between ['i.o] and [jo].  And the latter is the
difference between what I thought I heard and what seems to be the case.

-Marcos