I hear the ll as ʝ in "Medellín" and ʎ in "mejilla".
It is on the first minute of these clips:
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1Maybe lleísmo and/or yeísmo?– DiegoCommented Apr 19, 2020 at 1:22
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In the first minute of these clips: youtube.com/watch?v=K8QaOFiFDps youtube.com/watch?v=jzbWimMb_7Y– Andrew SherlockCommented Apr 19, 2020 at 10:11
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2Those are two different speakers in those videos - they have different accents.– jacoboCommented Apr 20, 2020 at 0:12
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I don't hear [ʎ] in either of the videos. I hear a voiced fricative [ʝ] in "mejillas" (which tends to become an approximant [j]) for the first few speakers in the second video (who are... Colombian?).
For "Medellín", the speaker (which speaks standard European Spanish) alternates between a fricative that sounds very close to [ʒ] and its corresponding affricate [dʒ]. I believe this alternation is common, especially when the syllable is stressed.
The sound transcribed as ll is only rarely a true palatal lateral, and it varies a lot among dialects and even among individuals. Since there are no similar sounds in Spanish that could be mistaken for it, this variation often goes unnoticed.
answered Apr 19, 2020 at 19:38
It would normally be a case of different speakers, different accents. But the fact that the first speaker is speaking with a Spanish (from Spain) accent suggests that this is a case of a foreign speaker pronouncing Medellín in the local manner.
