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  2. Spanish phonology - Wikipedia

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    In Castilian Spanish, its allophones in word-initial position include the palatal approximant , the palatal fricative , the palatal affricate and the palatal stop . [8] After a pause, a nasal, or a lateral, it may be realized as an affricate ([ɟʝ]); [9] [10] in other contexts, /ʝ/ is generally realized as an approximant .

  3. Long s - Wikipedia

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    The long s, ſ , also known as the medial s or initial s, is an archaic form of the lowercase letter s , found mostly in works from the late 8th to early 19th centuries. It replaced one or both [ a ] of the letters s in a double- s sequence (e.g., "ſinfulneſs" for "sinfulness" and "poſſeſs" or "poſseſs" for "possess", but never ...

  4. Puerto Rican Spanish - Wikipedia

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    Aspiration or elimination of the /s/ In syllable-final position, (i.e., before a consonant or at the end of a word), /s/ is debuccalized to [h] or eliminated altogether. Examples include [lah ˈrosah] instead of [laz ˈrosas] (las rosas, 'the roses') [loh ðoh] instead of [loz ðos] (los dos, 'the two'). This is also common in other "lowland ...

  5. Voiceless alveolar fricative - Wikipedia

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    In German, [s̺] was early on voiced to [z̺] in prevocalic position. This sound was then fronted to [z], but did not merge with any other sound (except that it was later re-devoiced in some southern dialects). In pre-consonantal and final position, [s̺] merged with either [s] or [ʃ]. The rules for these mergers differ between dialects.

  6. Spanish dialects and varieties - Wikipedia

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    In word-final position the rhotic will usually be: either a trill or a tap when followed by a consonant or a pause, as in amo [r ~ ɾ] paterno 'paternal love') and amo [r ~ ɾ], with the tap being more frequent and the trill before l, m, n, s, t, d, or sometimes a pause; or a tap when followed by a vowel-initial word, as in amo [ɾ] eterno ...

  7. Phonological history of Spanish coronal fricatives - Wikipedia

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    In Spanish dialectology, the realization of coronal fricatives is one of the most prominent features distinguishing various dialect regions. The main three realizations are the phonemic distinction between /θ/ and /s/ (distinción), the presence of only alveolar [] (), or, less commonly, the presence of only a denti-alveolar [] that is similar to /θ/ ().

  8. Help:IPA/Spanish - Wikipedia

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    This unmerged pronunciation predominates in the Andes, lowland Bolivia, Paraguay, some rural regions of Spain and some of northern Spain's urban upper class. [ 1 ] For terms that are more relevant to regions that have seseo (where words such as caza and casa are pronounced the same), words spelled with z or c (the latter only before i or e ...

  9. Cluster reduction - Wikipedia

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    A common simplification process in Chicano English is word-final cluster simplification. For example, "ward" would sound like "war," and "start" would sound like "star." [6]: 467 In Spanish, there is a sequential constraint, and /s/ clusters cannot occur at the beginning of a word. Due to this constraint, epenthesis of a vowel in a word before ...