Re: Spanish ll in different dialects

On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 18:16:14 EDT, Adam Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious <AczJ5@...> wrote:
> Okay, so this is my first year of non-basic Spanish class (since I'm now a
> Freshman :D).  My Spanish teacher threw off the class when she was having us
> memorize "puedo ir a mi casillero," where she pronounced the ll as /dZ/.  Of
> course, we're used to the Mexican /L/ whereas she used the Panama /dZ/.  Does
> anyone know any other dialects that pronounce ll as j?  Or why this is so?
My family (Cuban/Puertorican) and the dialects I'm familiar with use [j\]
(palatal fricative) for the ll/y phoneme, which, when pronouncing words with
exaggerated stress becames [J\j\] (palatal affricate).

I note it as [j\] particularly because it is not like English [Z] (or [dZ]) much at all.


	*Muke!
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