Re: [tied] Re: Mercury and lead

On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 16:07:35 -0000, MCLSSAA2@... wrote:

>How common is Portuguese pronouncing "s" as "sh"? E.g. I once saw a TV
>holiday program about Cascais do Estoril; the English-speaking
>commentator persistently pronounced it "Cashcaish do Eshtoril", but he
>never said "sh" for "s" anywhere when talking English.

In most of Portugal (except possibly the North), Rio de Janeiro and
some other parts on the Brazilian coast, /s/ becomes /s^/ before a
voiceless consonant or in word-final position (e.g. /kaskais/ >
/kas^kais^/. Before a voiced consonant, we have /z^/ in the same area
(e.g. /mEzmu/ > /mEz^mu/). Written <x> and <ch> are pronounced /s^/
everywhere (except possibly in the North, where <ch> is /c^/).

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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