Re: Future of Spanish

Josh Brandt-Young <neonwave7@...> wrote:
> >FFlores wrote:
>
> >> And some other syllable-final consonants too. In my dialect
> >> the final -r of verb infinitives is dropped more often than not.
> >
> >Interesting.  So, in your dialect, the infinitives are actually -a',
> >-e', and -i'?
>
> Very interesting indeed! Especially so because that's how it works in
> Catalan, and since I can't imagine any contemporary influence, heck, it
> just might start popping up all over the place...where are you from,
> exactly, Pablo?
Rosario, Argentina. That's about 300 km north-northwest of
Buenos Aires, at the west shore of the Parana' river. The
dialect is Rioplatense. The -r dropping is also found in
the BA area AFAIK.

>
> Ah, one other thing: do you pronounce the <r> when a vowel follows? For
> example, is "Quiero caminar al centro"
> [kjero kaminar al sentro] or, more like Catalan,
> [kjero kami'na:l sentro] when spoken quickly?
When spoken quickly, a mixture of both... maybe like
/rl/ (a very weak, sometimes syllabic /r/). The same
thing happens when a final /s/ becomes /h/
("vas al" = /bas al/ or /bas.l/ or /bah.l/).


--Pablo Flores

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