Re: THEORY: [i:]=[ij]? (was Re: Pronouncing "Boreanesia")

On 3 Nov, Eric Christopherson wrote:

>The phonetics book I mentioned earlier uses /y/ for a palatal fricative,
used in
>Spanish (it's a Spanish phonetics book). I'm not sure really how a palatal
>approximant and a palatal fricative would sound in comparison with each
>other, though.
    As I understand it, the fricative would have a lot of
"white-noise" type sound associated with it, like the
"static" sound you hear on an FM radio that's not picking
up any stations. An approximant would have a whole lot less,
if any,  of that sound.
    I'm sorry that I can't tell you how Spanish handles palatal
sounds. Any Spanish speakers care to comment?

Dan Sulani
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