Re: Misperceptions of Spanish pronunciation?
From: Ruud Harmsen (realemailseesite01_at_rudhar.com.invalid)
Date: 11/21/04
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Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 13:25:16 +0100
Sun, 21 Nov 2004 01:56:43 +0100: Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@wxs.nl>: in
sci.lang:
>The norm [in Spanish; RH] is not to distinguish hi- from y- (Navarro-Tomás:
>"En principo de sílaba la <i> inicial de diptongo se
>pronuncia generalmente como consonante, no haciéndiose, por
>consiguiente, diferencia ninguna, en cuanto al sonido
>inicial, entre <hierba> y <yegua>, <hierro> y <yeso>,
><hiena> y <yema>, etc. [..] Bajo la influencia de la
>escritura suele hacerse distinción, en pronunciación
>esmerada, entre dichas formas, diciendo <hierba>, <hierro>,
><hiena> con semiconsonante, [j], y <yeso>, <yegua>, <yema>,
>con consonante, [y]; pero lo corriente es [..] pronunciar
>una verdadera consonante palatal en unos y otros casos.")
Confer the last part ("Exceptions in Forced Palatalization") of
http://www.cogsci.indiana.edu/farg/harry/lan/grphdetl.htm#p_palatalization
which contains details about the subtle usage rules of "voiced
ich-laut" and "palatal approximant" in Modern Greek.
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