Re: Droppin' Ds
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 21, 2000, 1:44 |
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On Wed, 20 Sep 2000 11:10:38 -0700 Barry Garcia
<Barry_Garcia@...> writes:
> There is a girl in my conversational Spanish class who is a native
> speaker
> (well, she can speak very well, but forgets some. Her family is San
> Salvadorean i believe), pronounces her name as /aNhela/ , where i
> would
> expect /anhela/.
-
My roommate last semester in college was half Puertorriqueño and half
Peninsular Spanish. He also has a habit of pronouncing /n/ as [N] - for
instance he'd say [ka'xoN] for "cajón". He also dropped his final /d/'s,
for instance he pronounces "Sefarad" as "Sefará".
-Stephen (Steg)
"mai hhazit, dedama didakh sumaq ttefei?"