Re: "To whom"

#1 wrote:

> In my X-Sampa description, it says that /4/ is pronounced as
>
> "r in Spanish pero, tt American English better"
>
> But when I learned spanish, my teacher (wich were from Mexico) pronounced
> "pero" as /pEGo/ with a "e" between /e/ and /E/
[peGo] sounds affected to me, like a frenchish pronunciation of "perro"
(dog) rather than "pero" (but); well, I have actually heard L1 spanish
speakers with that pronunciation.  In my ears, however, english "better" and
spanish "vera" sounds pretty much alike.  The consonants are the same.  sort
of.

The /e/ is right.  It is between [e] and [E].  It is slightly more open in
words like "perro", not quite an [E], and slightly more closed in words like
"pero", but phonemically there is no difference.

-- Carlos Th