Re: y sound

From: "Christophe Grandsire" <christophe.grandsire@...>
> 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.
Actually, I think that means |ll| is pronounced as |y|, not [j].
The realization of both in the Spanish I'm familiar with are identical, and
closer to [j\].


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