Re: y sound

From: "John Cowan" <cowan@...>
> David Barrow scripsit:
> > fabol?  fabor maybe, but fabol? I'm not aware of any Spanish speaker who
would
> > confuse l and r
>
> Definitely.  I suspect the last sound is either [w] or [a] with the
> non-syllabic diacritic (inverted breve below), like German "-r".
When I hear it, it's more like the tap [r] is unreleased, which makes it indeed
sound very much like the Spanish [l].

    *Muke!
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