Philip Newton said:
> From: David Peterson <thatbluecat@...>
> [on Mexican |ll|]
>> I've only ever heard a mixture between
>> [j], [Z] and [dZ]. Both "ll" and "y" get pronounced this way
>
> A friend of mine, a Japanese who had spent a year or two on Mexico and
> picked up a little Spanish, gave me the phrase [dZo mE dZamo <name>],
> which confused me since I could imagine [dZ] for |ll| but had never
> heard of any pronunciation for |y| but [j]. Yet she insisted that that
> was the pronunciation she had learned there.
I've heard Cubans use [dZ] for |y| in their *English* and always assumed
it was because the do the same in their variety of Spanish.
-- Mark