Re: Emphasis allophonies?

FFlores wrote:
> Nice example:
>
>         Nos fuimos.     [noh'fwimoh]    'We went.'
>         No fuimos.      [no 'fuimoh]    'We didn't go.'
>
> In a particular tone, those two are virtually indistinguishable!
Does your dialect not use the allophone [O]?  I know I've read that some
dialects of Spanish have made that into a phoneme by losing the /s/,
making <nos> into /nO/ (from [nOs] > [nOh] > [nO])

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