Re: telepaths, sound changes, age changes, v changes, and lexicon
From: | Marcus Smith <smithma@...> |
Date: | Thursday, April 5, 2001, 0:48 |
Nik wrote:
> > But yeah, Latin v > Spanish v. In fact I think that etymology is the main
> > way to tell which should be used in (what I guess is the majority of)
> > dialects of Spanish that don't differentiate <v> and <b>.
>
>As far as I know, there are NO dialects of Spanish that differentiate
>{v} and {b}.
Apparently Los Angeles Spanish does. I can't give any examples, but a
former classmate of mine worked on this for a phonology project.
Marcus Smith
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