Re: y sound

En réponse à Jessica Husén :


>According to my teacher in Spanish Phonetics, ll is
>pronounced as y by 98% of the people who have
>Spanish as their first language.
I don't know how he can possible come to such a figure, seen that if you
talk about the people who have Spanish as first language, you have to
include a lot of South Americans, and in South America the most common
pronunciations for |ll| are [dZ], [Z] and [S], but certainly not [j]! So
you can't get 98% by a long shot. And even if you consider Spain alone, it
doesn't add up. I was taught Spanish with |ll| pronounced [j] only, by a
French teacher of Catalan origin. I had never heard of the [L]
pronunciation. So you can imagine my surprise when, staying one week in
Salamanca, I discovered that everyone, including small children, were
pronouncing |ll| as [L]! As I said, *all* of Castille pronounces |ll| as
[L], and I doubt that it makes only 2% of the Spanish population.

Christophe Grandsire.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.

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