Re: Spanish geminated vowels

On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 02:27:13 +0100, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
<miguelc@...> wrote:

Additionally:

>On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:49:27 -0800 (PST), Rick McCallister
><gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
>
>>Spanish geminated vowel are interesting in that there
>>is some type of qualitative difference going on.
>>I can't exactly explain what it is --whether a
>>tensing, then relaxing, a pitch distinction, or what.
>>In words like lee and loor both vowels are pronounced,
>>yet they're not separated by glottal stops and the
>>difference between le and lee is not one of length
>>--i.e. the vowel of lee is not just a long version of
>>that in le. Both vowels are distinctly pronounced yet
>>there is no glottal stop between them. Yet there is
>>some type of approximation, some type of change in the
>>shape of the mouth from open to closed.

It's probably the stress. In leer, loor, the first syllable
is unstressed, the second is stressed.

>>I've never seen an explanation of this phenomenon in
>>any book.
>
>Probably because the fact is that the two vowels are in two
>different syllables, and phoneticians still haven't figured
>out what a syllable is, physically.
>
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>Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
>miguelc@...

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