Today’s Bizarro, with a bilingual pun:
It works better orthographically — English L in POLO, Spanish LL in POLLO ‘chicken’ — while in pronunciation the words are somewhat more distant, with the English alveolar liquid [l] corresponding to the Spanish palatal glide [j] (for most speakers, though there is dialectal vaiation).
September 17, 2012 at 7:24 am |
I think that should be [ʝ]. José Ignacio Hualde has made a rather convincing case for a phonemic distinction between this sound and [j], mostly based on quasi-minimal pairs such as desierto [deˈsjeɾ.to] vs deshielo [desˈʝe.lo].
September 17, 2012 at 6:36 pm |
It probably should, though I wonder about dialect differences.