Re: y sound
| From: | Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, April 18, 2003, 14:41 |
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--- John Cowan skrzypszy:
> I love these Spanish words: yeismo/lleismo, ceceo/seseo, tuteo/voseo,
> leismo/loismo, .... Does any other language have anything like them?
Well, Russian has things like "akanije", "okanije", "ikanije".
The only thing I can think of in Dutch is "tutoyeren".
The habit to pronounce /r/ as a uvular trill is called "brouwen";
the habit to pronounce /s/ like [T] is called "lispelen".
Jan
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